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I am looking for a way to grab all images from a blog even if they are not visible (embedded) on the blog itself. In other words, images that are uploaded to a webpage, but not yet embedded in an article.
Let's someone has a blog: bestblogever.com/
And he has published the article: bestblogever.com/24/11/
On that article there is only one image: bestblogever.com/24/11/IMG_23.jpg
I know that the directory bestblogever.com/24/11/ contains more images, I just don't know the URL's. Is there a way (preferably) a software that can search and download all the unlisted pictures? E.g:
bestblogever.com/24/11/IMG_23.jpg
bestblogever.com/24/11/IMG_55.jpg
bestblogever.com/24/11/IMG_08.jpg
bestblogever.com/24/11/IMG_65.jpg
I tried HTTrack, but it only seem to grab the images that are actually displayable on the webpage.
If you can access the web directory
bestblogever.com/24/11/
then it would be easy. Otherwise, you would likely have to just guess at the URLs. – MC10 – 2015-08-07T13:58:40.5131This has been asked numerous times. You cannot do this unless the server permits directory indexing. – qasdfdsaq – 2015-08-07T14:02:15.057
I could just go on and check e.g bestblogever.com/24/11/IMG_23.jpg
bestblogever.com/24/11/IMG_55.jpg
bestblogever.com/24/11/IMG_08.jpg
bestblogever.com/24/11/IMG_65.jpg
..manually. But I cannot believe that there is no way to automate this.. – Arete – 2015-08-07T14:08:10.500
I guess what I am saying is that, If I can guess on the image URL's just by typing different numbers before the .jpg it should be possible for a software to do this. – Arete – 2015-08-07T14:09:56.053
Well yeah, you would just write a script to do it. – MC10 – 2015-08-07T17:38:47.060
How can I do that? – Arete – 2015-08-07T19:54:48.873
You can do it through batch file or use something like Wget. You would use regex to hit any possible image name.
– MC10 – 2015-08-07T22:00:03.450