Extreme Picture Finder online documentation
Introduction
Quick Start Guide
Program Interface
Main program window
Main menu commands
New Project wizard
Project properties window
Starting addresses
Target files
Title and category
Regular site
TGP site or page
Destination folder
Naming
Conflicts
Excluded URLs
Included URLs
File size limits
File date limits
Image size limits
Stop conditions
After completion
Project file
Create category window
Select category window
New Search wizard
Search properties
Search phrase
Search mode
Search Engines
Destination folder
File size limits
File date limits
Image size limits
Project file
Download log viewer
Options
General options
Proxy settings
Connections
Picture viewer settings
Thumbnails settings
Database Explorer settings
Advanced options
Online Project Database Explorer
Report non-working Project window
Request a new category
Contribute Project window
Select local category window
File list columns setup window
URL Generator
Built-in picture viewer
Command line
Command line parameters
Registration
How to register
Extreme Internet Software
Technical support

URL Generator

The URL Generator allows you to create a list of similar addresses and add them to the Download Project with a few mouse clicks. It is useful for downloading series of picture or movie files from the web when the names of files differ only in digits. For example, it will allow you to generate the following list of addresses:

http://www.site.com/gallery/image01.jpg
http://www.site.com/gallery/image02.jpg
http://www.site.com/gallery/image03.jpg
...
http://www.site.com/gallery/image49.jpg
http://www.site.com/gallery/image50.jpg

Generating addresses

The URL list generation process consists of two steps. First, you have to enter the URL template. Second, you have to set the numerators and click the Generate button. You will see the resulting list immediately in the URL list box.

URL template

To generate a list of addresses you have to enter the URL template first. The URL template must contain one to three numerators. Numerators look like this [1], [2], [3]. URL template must always contain the first numerator, [1] and may contain the other two. You can not skip the second numerator and insert the third one without it. If you need two numerators - you must use [1] and [2]. Here are some examples of URL templates:

http://www.site.com/gallery/image[1].jpg

http://www.site.com/gallery[1]/image[2].jpg

http://www.site.com/album[1]/gallery[2]/movie[3].avi

Numerators

To include a numerator in the URL list generation process you have to check the corresponding box in the Numerators list.

All numerators have the following common values:

  • from The starting number.

  • to The last number. URL generator will take each number from from to to and create a new URL.

  • step Use it to skip some numbers between from and to. If step is 1, then every number will be used. If step is 2, then every second number between from and to will be used. And so on.

  • digits The minimum number of digits. If the actual number contains less digits, it will be preceded with zeros.

Use the inside [x] box if you want a numerator to create a sub-list of URLs for every number of previous numerator.

Adding addresses to the Project

After you generated all necessary addresses, just click the OK button to add all the addresses from the URL list to the Download Project.

If you click the Cancel button, URL generator will close without adding any addresses to the Project.