Scraper

A single uri image scraper.

Usage

scraper <source> <destination>

e.g.

scraper http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/china_as_seen_by_elizabeth_dal.html ~/Desktop

Notes

• The images downloaded will be saved to a directory with the name of the source, in a sluggified form. e.g. in the case of the example above, the images will be saved to:

    ~/Desktop/http-www-boston-com-bigpicture-2009-10-china_as_seen_by_elizabeth_dal-html/
  

• Small images (below 20Kb) will be discarded.

• The images downloaded are saved with their original filenames, with a random-ish number prefix. This is to allow multiple batches to be dumped into a single directory without name clashes, e.g.

    18283__pretty_picture.jpg
  

• This script is pleased to require Hpricot (gem install hpricot)

License

Do what you want.