Re: Website crawler auto image downloader

Sam Smith wrote: > I need a script that will crawl a list of websites and download all .jpg, > .gif, .png files. > > I can think of some ways how to start like, fopen() or maybe curl(). And it > downed on me I'd need to handle files writing over with the same name. And > it would be cool to save the full URL to the file in a database with the > path on the local server where I'm saving them. > > I was hoping someone might say, "Dude, that's simple, just do this..." > before I spent hours guessing. > > Anyone? > > Thanks > > Dude, that's simple, just do this... - crawl the page extracting the src of images, regex or dom - fopen and read it - fput and save it, if it exists add an incremental number - save url and local dir/filename in db -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com