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OutHouse · 07-10-2012, 05:54 PM

I am a non programmer trying to program so I need help.

I have a long list of image URLs and I simply need to write something that will grab them and put them all into a folder. I'm about ready to break something valuable so I decided to see if someone wouldn't mind helping.

So far, I have a directory that contains a .txt of all the URLs (one per line), a folder where I want the images stored, and this php script that I'm not smart enough to make work which is so far:

<?php
$filename = "urls.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fgets($handle [, int $length ]);
$image = file_get_contents($contents);

//I'm pretty sure nothing below here is sensical

$savefile = fopen('images/image.jpg', 'w');
fwrite($savefile,);
fclose($savefile);
?>

Most of this is from reading tutorials, familiarizing myself as much as possible with info from php.net, and pasting code... so I admit to being a noob poser who should just hire someone to do this type of thing. I'd really like to get this working.

Freakin · 07-10-2012, 06:18 PM

Why php? Is this for your own purposes?
How about powershell?

Code:

$client = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$urlList = Get-Content c:\urls.txt
    foreach($url in $urlList)
    {
		if ($url -match '([\w\d_-]*)\.?[^\\\/]*$')
		{
	        $client.DownloadFile($url, "c:\" + $Matches[0])
		}	
    }

gets list of urls from c:\urls.txt
saves files to c:\whateverfilenameisfromurl

OutHouse · 07-10-2012, 06:33 PM

I appreciate that example. PHP because it's the only language I have any remote familiarity with. I wouldn't even know where to start with another structure.

jmark · 07-10-2012, 08:02 PM

Can you get access to linux / cygwin?

wget -i urls.txt

Freakin · 07-10-2012, 08:48 PM

lol yeah batch + wget (assuming windows) was going to be my next suggestion. this is a simple script that you are overcomplicating (moreso than my powershell overcomplicating

).

gwp · 07-10-2012, 10:27 PM

look at the following:

imagecreatefromstring()
imagejpeg()

txpstwx · 07-11-2012, 12:22 AM

Code:

<?php
$filename = "urls.txt";
$urls = file($filename, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
foreach ($urls as $url) {
    $url_parts = pathinfo($url);
    $img = 'images/' . $url_parts['basename'];
    copy($url, $img);
}
?>

Requires allow_url_fopen to be set to on.

MikeyObviously · 07-11-2012, 03:53 PM

Yeah this is something the command line utility Wget can handle:
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

It has been mentioned, but wanted to spell it out more...

edit: There is a windows version, I had to use it at work a few years back.

RICHI8 · 07-27-2012, 02:01 AM

Since you're looking to do this in PHP I'll tell you how I would go about it if I had to use PHP but I won't give you the code to do it.

First I would iterate over every line in that text file
Then I would grab the URL and send a GET request to the URL using cURL (I recommend cURL if you're using PHP but you can use any HTTP library you like)
Have cURL return the file
Save said file to the directory of your choice

Here's documentation on PHP's implementation of cURL: http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

shift+ · 08-02-2012, 09:51 AM

Code:

<?

$urls = explode(PHP_EOL, file_get_contents("urls.txt"));

foreach($urls as $url)
file_put_contents("images/".basename($url), file_get_contents($url));

?>