Wallpaper me
July 3, 2013 11:20 AM

Is there a way to download all the images from a particular website?

I'd like to download all the images of a particular resolution (1440x900) from this wallpaper website. Their interface is just so clunky, and saving images individually takes forever. Is there an easy way to do this?

I'm running a new Macbook Air, if that makes any difference. (It means that this solution won't work for me. Plus, I don't have a lot of programming experience.)
posted by soonertbone to Computers & Internet (2 answers total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
Which browser do you use? The DownThemAll! extension for Firefox does exactly this.
posted by divined by radio at 11:27 AM on July 3, 2013


The script that your solution links to will work for you. Ruby is already installed on OS X by default, but you'll need to install wget, which is easy using Homebew (their example uses wget) and the ruby gem Nokogiri (gem install nokogiri). You'll want to change a few things in the script for your specific needs (Resolution, Output_Directory). If you have some programming experience (which I'm guessing because you say you don't have a lot) then I think this is mostly straightforward.
posted by disaster77 at 11:31 AM on July 3, 2013


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