About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:36:55 +0000

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

taborda — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:36:04 +0000

that worked perfectly with facebook :D...

now having trouble with downloading flickr sets... when i put a flickr link on FDR it just disappears from the list after i click start...

;)

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:13:35 +0000

Hmm.. I can reproduce the 28 images issue right now. I'll try to fix it when I have time, but I'm not promising anything.

The semi-automatic way as described by major in : [wordrider.net] :
- open the album in browser.
- scroll down until all photos is displayed.
- select all (Ctrl-A), then copy (Ctrl-C), FRD clipboard monitoring will pick the links.
- manually filter the photos with [www.facebook.com] pattern.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

taborda — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:11:57 +0000

major Wrote:
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> Vity Wrote:
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> > @tong2shot you are unstoppable ;-).
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> This.
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> (forget the 28-photos-only issue, I can always
> mark all the photos in album and FRD piks up their
> links)

i also have the 28 photos issue... just download the first 28pictures on an album...

@major says he can alays mark all photos in album and FRD picks up their link...didn't understand what he means with that... is there a way to (semi-)automaticaly download all the pictures of n album?

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

major — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:58:25 +0000

Vity Wrote:
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> @tong2shot you are unstoppable ;-).

This.

(forget the 28-photos-only issue, I can always mark all the photos in album and FRD piks up their links)

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

Vity — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:20:08 +0000

@tong2shot you are unstoppable ;-).

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:38:52 +0000

Please try facebook plugin v1.1.4.

I was under impression that setting language cookie was sufficient, but it is not. This likely fixes the highest resolution issue.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

ntoskrnl — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:49:55 +0000

Oh dear, I think we need this link again: [wordrider.net] :-)

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

birchie — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:03:35 +0000

@tong2shot sorry don't have facebook account

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

Vity — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:30:29 +0000

I have no photos there...

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:25:07 +0000

Unfortunately I only have few friends in facebook, I rarely use it, in fact I reactivated my facebook account few days ago (I deactivated the account 1.5 years ago), when I tried to fix the plugin. So there are only few private albums that contain more than 28 photos that I can test. And from what I tested the plugin works just fine.

@birchie, Vity : can you help me with this plugin ? Thanks. :-)

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

major — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:35:06 +0000

Ok, I don't have a problem with those sample albums you posted. But they are from facebook pages that are public and acccesible without login. I think there might be a problem with the content, where you need to be logged in. I haven't managed to download any albums from my friends in the high resolution (I checked it was available because the download button was there and the downloaded photo did have 2048px)
But you said you tried to download some private albums, too and they worked fine for you...

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:02:01 +0000

How do you know if the higher resolution is available ?

Still I can't reproduce your case though.

Here is my sample case :

[www.facebook.com]

There are some albums with more than 28 photos, with various resolution.

For instance, in this album I can download all (109) photos in hi-res :
[www.facebook.com]

In this album I can download all (357) photos in medium-res :
[www.facebook.com]

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

major — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:36:40 +0000

Hm. Then I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I thought my laptop was too old and slow for the plugin to load all the images from an album and so it downloaded only the first 28 pictures, but then I tried it (with my fb account) on an Intel i5 PC (latest FRD, latest fb plugin of course) and it was the same. Only 28 pics and no higher resolution than 960px. Therefore I say: damn you facebook!
You know, I might just have some security or other setting configured differently than you do, or there is different content on your facebook than on mine (with the http and https like you said) or I don't know

PS.: To download all and not only 28 pictures I marked all the pictures (or with Ctrl+A) in the album and FRD picked all the photos (in the [www.facebook.com] format) and downloaded them. But again, not the hi-res ones, even if they are here and the Downlaod button as well...

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:17:43 +0000

I'm not sure what is wrong here. I can download more than 28 photos in an album and high res photos either public or private just fine and always consistent when I checked via browser. High res photo (>1000px) is marked with "_o" at the end of filename, medium res photo (<1000px) is marked with "_n" at the end of filename.

If plugin found "Download" link below the photo (no matter what the resolution is), then it will take that as source. If "Download" link is not found then the plugin will download the photo which is shown, and this behaviour is consistent with browser.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

major — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:34:07 +0000

It works pefect. For facebook pages. :-(
I tried to download some albums from friends of mine (I can't give you the links, cause they wouldn't work with your account), and it only downloaded 960, or even only the medium sized, 720px photos, even when full resoulution photos were available for download. And what's worse, FRD didn't download more than 28 photos from these albums. Damn it, facebook, Y U NO MAKE IT SIMPLE?

PS: Fcuk the Wall photos, nobody wants to downoad hunderds of random photos. It's the ordinary albums in high resolution that's important :-)

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:45:37 +0000

Please try facebook plugin v1.1.3.

1) Fixed. Now the plugin will queue and download all items in albums, not just 28 items. The only exception is wall photos, and this behaviour is consistent with browser. In some wall photo albums (that contain hundreds/thousands items) you can't see all the items with browser.

2a) Some albums don't have high res photos, so the plugin will download the medium res photos instead. For instance your sample album in point 1) only contains medium res photos. Please check with browser. I can download high res photo from your sample album in point 2a). So nothing to resolve here.

2b) Fixed.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

major — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:40:13 +0000

yes, we are almost there tong2shot! There are two more things though:
1) When there are more than about 28 photos in an album like in this sample link, it only downloads the first 28 photos from the top. This is because when you open the album in a browser, only the first 28 photos load at first and the other photos load only after you scroll down the page. That's probably why frd only picks up and downloads the first 28 photos

2a) Sometimes, the plugin downloads the photos in the medium size, link to a sample album that did that

2b) and the other times, when it downloads the the photos in the high resolution (as it always should, because the higher, the better) the file extension of downloaded photos is not .jpg, but .jpg_dl=1 - sample album that did that

The worst thing about the bug 2) is that sometimes it happens like described in 2a) and sometimes the other way :-(

But if you manage to fix these to bugs, it'll be perfect!

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:10:39 +0000

Only high profile sites use https. And they tend to serve different page for https, as you can see in picasa and facebook. We have to prepare for some changes in plugins if we are going to support https in plugin.xml by default.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

ntoskrnl — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:55:33 +0000

I was going to say it's a good idea except that most sites just error out if they don't have a HTTPS version available.

I tried JumboFiles as an example, but they have an HTTPS version available. But they use an invalid certificate, which FRD would silently accept: [jumbofiles.com]

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

Vity — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:49:02 +0000

I think we should add support for https in the template plugin.xml for new plugins by default.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:42:55 +0000

Thanks for the comments on https issue. Not many sites in our supported list utilize https (rapidshare, picasa, and facebook are the only sites that I know utilizing https), but good to know FRD uses SSL/TLS in https although it accepts all certificates, which is better than plain http.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

ntoskrnl — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:40:16 +0000

FRD does use SSL/TLS, but it accepts all certificates, so strictly speaking it's vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

Vity — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:36:47 +0000

@tong2shot : he meant to enable https in plugin.xml regexp. It's always secure when you use https.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:54:40 +0000

Please try facebook plugin v1.1.2.

@Vity, ntoskrnl, devs who have knowledge on FRD https issue, please comment on this https issue. Does FRD use secure socket (SSL/TLS) in https protocol ? So we don't give users a false sense of security. I haven't look FRD+libs source thoroughly.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

major — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:36:07 +0000

1) Please fix the https issue, like you did with the picasa plugin (see this setting page to improve your own security on facebook - every fb user shoud have this checked, otherwise your activity on fb can be monitored by third parties,especially when you are connected to the internet via Wi-Fi)

2) Photo album links that don't work (FRD says: No picture/video links found)

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.378587962164129.86570.182162001806727&type=3
[www.facebook.com]

(or practically any other album I tried)

3) I tried to download some videos as well today and they all worked so that's cool.

I hope you can get it fixed all right,
thanks

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:08:44 +0000

@major : could you post/PM me sample of the problematic video,photo,album links ?

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

major — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:26:13 +0000

Hey tong2shot, the picasa plugin is now perfect. Lots of people know that the https is better for safer browsing.
However, the facebook plugin doesn't seem to work very well. I was able to download one video (but another video didn't download at all) and I can't download the photo albums at all. All that FRD does is recognize the link (link with https isn't supported like the previous version of the picasa plugin) but then it gives me errors, such as No picture/video links found). When I try to download a single photo (or the other video that didn't work) it says ERROR - Tag containing 'Download' was not found :-( Do you think you can fix it? Downloading whole photo albums would be perfect cause then you can browse the pictures whenever you're offline.

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

ntoskrnl — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 07:01:34 +0000

tong2shot Wrote:
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> I'll handle facebook plugin since ntoskrnl doesn't
> have facebook account. Please try facebook plugin
> v1.1.0.

Thanks! :-)

Re: About Image( Bulk or User) Downloader Plugin

tong2shot — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 05:50:51 +0000

Picasa plugin v1.0.5 fix https issue.