OK, so back in July I posted my praises of Google Reader and RSS technology. Today however, I’m not so sure. I’ve been without Internet for a couple of weeks, and look at my Google Reader:
Do you have a photobucket account? Have you ever, for whatever reason, wanted to download a whole album or a page worth of photos and found it time consuming?
If so, here is a script that will allow you to bulk download: getpics.sh
As you can see, it isn’t the best quality script ever, but it does the job.
A word of warning, it connects to the internet once to see what page youve specified, plu as many time as you have photos.
To view a whole album (and this download a whole album) add “?start=all” (no quotes) to the end of your URL.
Requirements:
Bash
curl
Internet connection
A photobucket page that shows the “Direct Link” text box
Yes, it would appear I’m becoming a little more Web 2.0 compliant…I now use RSS and Google Reader. For years I couldn’t understand why you would want RSS, I had bookmarks and could click on them and look at the site myself, but there’s something about having everything in one place which is very nice. Read the rest of this entry »
Why does one start to write a blog? I know why I started mine, I wanted some representation on the web which was a bit more organised than the sites I tend to cobble together…Did I share much with you all? Looking back, no. OK, so I’ve blogged about at least one thing every month…But that’s just it, some months I’ve completely neglected this site… Read the rest of this entry »
