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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 9:25 pm
http://www.greggle.com/
From the site:
"WTF is Greggle?"
Greggle is a better way to view and download images from the web. Unless you've been living under a rock or just have dial-up we're pretty sure that you've noticed that image gallery's on most web sites use ascending numbers to name image file sets.
Examples would include 001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg and so on. A site may also have several galleries within it like gallery1, gallery2, gallery3 etc.
And then there was Greggle!
Greggle creates links or simply puts those images all in one place for you to enjoy without the hassle of typing URL's into your location bar by hand.
Say you find this URL - http://mysite.com/images/img001.jpg - and you want to know if there are more images similar to that one or additional images to create a series. It stands to reason that if image img001.jpg is in existence that img002.jpg and so on may also be there. Typing all those image names in the location bar obviously is the poor mans way to take a peek. You need to Greggle it!
To Greggle that URL, simply enter it into the Greggle text box making a simple but very important modification.
The magic of Greggle happens when you add brackets around the numeric portion of the image or gallery name. Within the added brackets, you add the range (within reason) that you would like to view using a dash, no spaces. For instance -
http://mysite.com/images/img[001-003].jpg
The above example would return links to:
http://mysite.com/images/img001.jpg
http://mysite.com/images/img002.jpg
http://mysite.com/images/img003.jpg
Greggle can handle 1 or 2 incrementing ranges. This means that http://mysite.com/images[01-02]/img[001-003].jpg is a functional Greggle URL. The current limit is two incrementing ranges. If additional ranges are needed, they will be added in future releases, but currently we have not seen a need for the third range.
Entering a modified URL and clicking the Greggle! button returns a page with hyperlinks to all the images within the specified range. This is useful if you just want to click on links to the images. To up the ante so to speak, copy the resulting Greggle URL into a program like WebCopier or BlackWidow to save all the images that are generated in the link list. These programs are also called offline web browsers.
Don't have hundreds of images and just want to look at a few images on one page? Select the Image radio button and the page retuned will display the images instead of links. Be careful though? if you actually are on dial-up or don't have enough ram, your browser is going to crash. A browser can safely handle about 20 images loaded into one page before your system will start to suffer, assuming the image size is less than 50k. The number of images you can display on one page varies with your connection speed, amount of system memory and processor speed. As a general rule, start at 20, and work your way up
After loading a page with images, you can save the browser page, which should save all the images contained within it.
In future Greggle releases additional features will appear. Some under development include:
Image display pages will have truncation limit at a user-defined number and a "Next" button will appear to load up the images in your cue. In effect this creates your own personal temporary online image gallery.
Slide show functionality to cycle through images. Completed Beta 6.17.03
The Greggle idea came from something called fusker that we once used. Because it was taken down - and since we couldn't live with out it, we created our own. The Greggle code is original and written specifically for this site.
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From the site:
"WTF is Greggle?"
Greggle is a better way to view and download images from the web. Unless you've been living under a rock or just have dial-up we're pretty sure that you've noticed that image gallery's on most web sites use ascending numbers to name image file sets.
Examples would include 001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg and so on. A site may also have several galleries within it like gallery1, gallery2, gallery3 etc.
And then there was Greggle!
Greggle creates links or simply puts those images all in one place for you to enjoy without the hassle of typing URL's into your location bar by hand.
Say you find this URL - http://mysite.com/images/img001.jpg - and you want to know if there are more images similar to that one or additional images to create a series. It stands to reason that if image img001.jpg is in existence that img002.jpg and so on may also be there. Typing all those image names in the location bar obviously is the poor mans way to take a peek. You need to Greggle it!
To Greggle that URL, simply enter it into the Greggle text box making a simple but very important modification.
The magic of Greggle happens when you add brackets around the numeric portion of the image or gallery name. Within the added brackets, you add the range (within reason) that you would like to view using a dash, no spaces. For instance -
http://mysite.com/images/img[001-003].jpg
The above example would return links to:
http://mysite.com/images/img001.jpg
http://mysite.com/images/img002.jpg
http://mysite.com/images/img003.jpg
Greggle can handle 1 or 2 incrementing ranges. This means that http://mysite.com/images[01-02]/img[001-003].jpg is a functional Greggle URL. The current limit is two incrementing ranges. If additional ranges are needed, they will be added in future releases, but currently we have not seen a need for the third range.
Entering a modified URL and clicking the Greggle! button returns a page with hyperlinks to all the images within the specified range. This is useful if you just want to click on links to the images. To up the ante so to speak, copy the resulting Greggle URL into a program like WebCopier or BlackWidow to save all the images that are generated in the link list. These programs are also called offline web browsers.
Don't have hundreds of images and just want to look at a few images on one page? Select the Image radio button and the page retuned will display the images instead of links. Be careful though? if you actually are on dial-up or don't have enough ram, your browser is going to crash. A browser can safely handle about 20 images loaded into one page before your system will start to suffer, assuming the image size is less than 50k. The number of images you can display on one page varies with your connection speed, amount of system memory and processor speed. As a general rule, start at 20, and work your way up
After loading a page with images, you can save the browser page, which should save all the images contained within it.
In future Greggle releases additional features will appear. Some under development include:
Image display pages will have truncation limit at a user-defined number and a "Next" button will appear to load up the images in your cue. In effect this creates your own personal temporary online image gallery.
Slide show functionality to cycle through images. Completed Beta 6.17.03
The Greggle idea came from something called fusker that we once used. Because it was taken down - and since we couldn't live with out it, we created our own. The Greggle code is original and written specifically for this site.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
very useful when you're searching for porn, I mean pictures of your favourite tv stars.... nude... I mean, nevermind, good site. go. explore.
