Looking to create MySpace download HowTo
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 2:49 am
The latest version of MySpace displays thumbnails of pictures as either 300x300 or 70x70 and all files are jpg's. There is no mechanism for members to download all of their files. I recently used the "FlashGot All" function in Firefox to scrape all images from an album for a friend, but of course it just got the displayed thumbnails, not the full images. From there thumbnail files were downloaded with DownloadThemAll.
I'd like to work out a way to invoke a SaveAs operation on every image on a page, to get the full image that's available from the server. If we click an image link it opens a web page to display that one image. Using FlashGot All, DTA shows a list of images on the page. One of them has a link which I can't post here due to filters. It goes to the MySpace CDN and ends with /NN/guid/full.jpg
That's the image that's displayed and it's the one we want. I don't see a pattern to the /NN/guid except that NN is always numeric and 'guid' is hex, like a GUID/UUID without the dashes. The ID for a full.jpg is completely different from its thumbnail. This is a typical gallery display with Next/Previous arrows to other full.jpg images. Manually, a user would need to click Next through each image, right click for a context menu, then use SaveAs or DTA one-click or a similar function for that one image. I'd like to avoid forcing someone to do that hundreds of times.
So can we work out some way to do this with FlashGot? Or is this a task for another tool? Perhaps some scripting with cURL or similar?
Thanks!
I'd like to work out a way to invoke a SaveAs operation on every image on a page, to get the full image that's available from the server. If we click an image link it opens a web page to display that one image. Using FlashGot All, DTA shows a list of images on the page. One of them has a link which I can't post here due to filters. It goes to the MySpace CDN and ends with /NN/guid/full.jpg
That's the image that's displayed and it's the one we want. I don't see a pattern to the /NN/guid except that NN is always numeric and 'guid' is hex, like a GUID/UUID without the dashes. The ID for a full.jpg is completely different from its thumbnail. This is a typical gallery display with Next/Previous arrows to other full.jpg images. Manually, a user would need to click Next through each image, right click for a context menu, then use SaveAs or DTA one-click or a similar function for that one image. I'd like to avoid forcing someone to do that hundreds of times.
So can we work out some way to do this with FlashGot? Or is this a task for another tool? Perhaps some scripting with cURL or similar?
Thanks!