How to retrieve photos from a website using GalleryRemote
February 15, 2006 10:14 PM Subscribe
Last year I used the program GalleryRemote to upload 300pics to a pretty crappy photohosting website. My HD recently crashed and I want to retrieve all the photos easily, but can't - how can I do it?
A bit more info: I'm not as stupid as some of you may think. I did see the 'fetch pictures' option in GalleryRemote, but when I log into my gallery using the program, I can't see my photos or albums, besides for the album names.
I tried downloading the regular Gallery but couldn't make heads or tails out of the program. I'd really like to get all these pictures back without clicking on each one and individually saving it (as they are in hi-res format).
Is there something in the options that I'm not doing that would make the photos show up in the program? Is there another program/way to do this? Please help.
A bit more info: I'm not as stupid as some of you may think. I did see the 'fetch pictures' option in GalleryRemote, but when I log into my gallery using the program, I can't see my photos or albums, besides for the album names.
I tried downloading the regular Gallery but couldn't make heads or tails out of the program. I'd really like to get all these pictures back without clicking on each one and individually saving it (as they are in hi-res format).
Is there something in the options that I'm not doing that would make the photos show up in the program? Is there another program/way to do this? Please help.
Log into your server and go into your /gallery directory. Your photos in http://www.peterpans.com/gallery/album189 are actually in a folder call /gallery/albums/album189. If you download that entire folder, you will have your original images, the medium sized images, as well as the thumbnails.
posted by seymour.skinner at 11:10 PM on February 15, 2006
posted by seymour.skinner at 11:10 PM on February 15, 2006
If you can't login, you could use wget to spider the site.
see this thread on google answers.
posted by cwhitfcd at 11:18 PM on February 15, 2006
see this thread on google answers.
posted by cwhitfcd at 11:18 PM on February 15, 2006
Seems to me that you could use a program such as "wget" or "curl" (you can find versions of it for various operating systems) to crawl the pages to download the jpegs. I'm not very good with wget's options.
However, all of the photos follow a pattern, http://www.peterpans.com/gallery/albums/album189/Picture_0xx.jpg. You can crawl this buy hand, by just loading each of these by hand and saving it from your browser. Start with Picture_001.jpg and work your way all the way up, in Firefox left click and select "Save Image As" (I think it's the same in most browsers) and you're on your way. I'm sure it'll only take you about 10 seconds an image.
posted by Mijo Bijo at 11:34 PM on February 15, 2006
However, all of the photos follow a pattern, http://www.peterpans.com/gallery/albums/album189/Picture_0xx.jpg. You can crawl this buy hand, by just loading each of these by hand and saving it from your browser. Start with Picture_001.jpg and work your way all the way up, in Firefox left click and select "Save Image As" (I think it's the same in most browsers) and you're on your way. I'm sure it'll only take you about 10 seconds an image.
posted by Mijo Bijo at 11:34 PM on February 15, 2006
Correction: Left click should be "right click on the image"
posted by Mijo Bijo at 11:52 PM on February 15, 2006
posted by Mijo Bijo at 11:52 PM on February 15, 2006
Best answer: you could use wget, curl, perl, flashgot, downthemall, or any number of programming languages, firefox extensions, and/or download managers to script this if the progression is as predictable as MB pointed out. I'd start with the FF route (flashgot, DTA) unless you know a scripting language already.
posted by kcm at 12:12 AM on February 16, 2006
posted by kcm at 12:12 AM on February 16, 2006
What kind of computer are you on? Does it have things like perl and wget?
posted by AmbroseChapel at 12:50 AM on February 16, 2006
posted by AmbroseChapel at 12:50 AM on February 16, 2006
I'm with madajb myself, just use ftp to grab the photos from the directory. Of course, make sure you grab the originals and not the thumbnails or intermediate sized photos. Usually that's easy to distinguish by names and sizes. (Thumbs and intermediate often have extensions tagged to the front, and the originals usually have just their filename, e.g. DSC00123.JPG)
posted by smallerdemon at 6:30 AM on February 16, 2006
posted by smallerdemon at 6:30 AM on February 16, 2006
why not just email the hosters? thepan@peterpans.com
i'm sure they could tell you the best way
posted by poppo at 7:06 AM on February 16, 2006
i'm sure they could tell you the best way
posted by poppo at 7:06 AM on February 16, 2006
Response by poster: Sorry it took so long for me to return to your questions. First of all, thanks for your help. I haven't had access to internet on my own computer for a while, so I'll give these a try and let you know how that works. Some things I can answer before doing that (as it will be in 2 days):
-I emailed the hosters and they didn't respond
-I don't know that much about programming languages and such, but I will give those programs a shot.
-As far as the FTP goes, that does seem like a good idea, but I've tried running programs like CuteFTP and others on my computer (it's at work) and they never seem to work.
-The right-click method seems obvious and easy, but I'm lazy and sure there's an easier way than right clicking 300 times.
I'll try some of the suggested programs/techniques and return. Thanks MeFi's!
posted by shokod at 4:51 AM on February 18, 2006
-I emailed the hosters and they didn't respond
-I don't know that much about programming languages and such, but I will give those programs a shot.
-As far as the FTP goes, that does seem like a good idea, but I've tried running programs like CuteFTP and others on my computer (it's at work) and they never seem to work.
-The right-click method seems obvious and easy, but I'm lazy and sure there's an easier way than right clicking 300 times.
I'll try some of the suggested programs/techniques and return. Thanks MeFi's!
posted by shokod at 4:51 AM on February 18, 2006
Hey I had a similar issue where I accidently deleted a whole HD of pictures.
FTP works awesome!!
Just figure out where the 'data' lives by looking at the config.php file.
posted by countzen at 1:13 AM on May 27, 2006
FTP works awesome!!
Just figure out where the 'data' lives by looking at the config.php file.
posted by countzen at 1:13 AM on May 27, 2006
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Have you tried logging into that?
posted by madajb at 10:34 PM on February 15, 2006