http://www.cineris.org/blog/2006/08/25/tarot-card-collection/ Musings on Electronics and Culture Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:02:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.cineris.org/blog/2006/08/25/tarot-card-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-655 Augury » Blog Archive » Tools that Change Your Life: FlashGet Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:29:24 +0000 http://www.cineris.org/blog/2006/08/25/tarot-card-collection/#comment-655 [...] Not ideal, but fair enough. I first gave it a try with my efforts to download collections of tarot cards. It was a stunning failure. The website in question, Multiply.com, seems to require a certain “code” to display the original (full-size) image. I could access the thumbnails easily enough, but since each of the original images was located in a directory similar to “/orig/##_NameofCard.jpg?id=SequenceofNumbersandLetters” and since I am not sure how to use Flashgot’s seemingly hamstrung implementation of regular expressions, the task of setting up the program to download any files fitting the paradigm of “/orig/*.jpg?id=*” was put to a complete stop. After trying various different approaches over the course of about 3 days I finally gave up and decided to download my favorite five sets manually. [...] [...] Not ideal, but fair enough. I first gave it a try with my efforts to download collections of tarot cards. It was a stunning failure. The website in question, Multiply.com, seems to require a certain “code” to display the original (full-size) image. I could access the thumbnails easily enough, but since each of the original images was located in a directory similar to “/orig/##_NameofCard.jpg?id=SequenceofNumbersandLetters” and since I am not sure how to use Flashgot’s seemingly hamstrung implementation of regular expressions, the task of setting up the program to download any files fitting the paradigm of “/orig/*.jpg?id=*” was put to a complete stop. After trying various different approaches over the course of about 3 days I finally gave up and decided to download my favorite five sets manually. [...]

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