I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction.
I have a rather large spreadsheet of product info that needs plugging into a shop. The tricky bit is that the spreadsheet has a link which points to the relevant page on another site which has the products details, and what i need to do is grab that relevant Image and save locally, so I can use later.The reason Why Im thinking down this line is there are 7500 products....
My friend suggested I could maybe use php & filepopen.
The image does have an outer tag ID which I can refer to.
I was thinking of iterating through the spreadsheet this is the type of link I have to work with
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=APCRBC105
the images themselves are called something random, but I figured I could rename them as I grab them to the more relevant SKU number.
so iterate through the spreadsheet by SKU number
identify the image by the relevant id on the page (I'm assumming it's
in the same place on every page)
save the image while renaming to the correct SKU number
Any ideas on how I could go about this ? the thought of visiting each page manually and saving the image 7500 times doesn't seem the best way forward!
Thanks for looking
Rip the base_sku from your links.
APCRBC105
Then use curl to fetch the image page
http://www.apc.com/products/moreimages.cfm?partnum=APCRBC105
Rip the image link with a regex epression on :
<div align="center">
<img align="center" src="http://www.apcmedia.com/resource/images/500/Front_Left/35531838-5056-9170-D33F24AE47742E6C_pr.jpg" />
</div>
Then use curl again to rip the actual image and save it.
That should work..
If there aren't any issues regarding copyrighted material, take a look at Google Refine.
You can grab content from websites based on your cell values and use them afterwards to build more complex scenarios.
See the screencasts for more info (screencast 3 talks about fetching values via URLs).
Once you have the Image URL's in your spreadsheet, it should be fairly easy to fetch them via curl or similar.
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I would like to add image posts to a website much like Imgur.com
So especially the Image-Text-Image-Text or Text-Image-Image-Text-Image style..
If it was simply Image-Text then I would just have a database table with pictures and their respective captions but this can be any order..
How would I structure a random order of text and pictures in the database while supporting Markdown? A simple push in the right direction is probably enough!
I may be misunderstanding the question but...
If you're looking to upload images to Imgur using your own software/php script, you're going to want to use the Imgur API. You'll have to Register Your Application before you can make use of it.
I am building a "Reddit" like site.
The User can post an URL from which I want to get the correct image with PHP.
What I would need is a script which sites like Facebook or Tumblr use to fetch the Images.
I saw already scripts which get the images by getting the HTML Content and searching for "img" tags.
Are there any better methods/scripts available?
Maybe even scripts which will order the images by the size: The bigger the image the more important it is.
Thanks for answers
You may want to check out PHPQuery, it will allow you easily iterate through all images on a given website. You can then work out the areas of each image and sort them accordingly.
It depends a bit for what you're looking for and what the image is that the user would like to have with his post. To give you an example: I once wrote a method that searches for a logo of a company on the company's website. To do so, I searched for, indeed, the img-tags using simple_html_dom and filtered those tags on the existence of logo in the alt-tag. The results are displayed to the user to select the right image; it could be that you find multiple images fitting your purpose.
I would indeed, as you proposed, have a look at the size and skip small images (e.g. smaller dan lets say 50 px).
I'm working on a website for a specific client. And he wants to be able to add link to the website, and on mouse hover to have a image of that website appear.
Now, he doesen't want to take an image of the website, he only wants to input the link and have the website do everything else.
So my question is ->
Is there a way (eg. google API) to get a website image only by providing the url via php?
Sort of like in google, when you hover over a lik of a page, a tooltip pops up to the right with an image.
Any help is, as always, appriciated :)
Here is a list of 10 free thumbnail services
http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/10-free-website-thumbnail-generation-services/
You can simply refer to the URLs of these services, e.g.
<img src="http://SnapCasa.com/Get.aspx?code=[code]&size=[size]&url=[url]" />
or make a CURL call from one of your PHP scripts and temporarily store/permanently save the image that was generated.
Have recently developed Thumbnailspro.com. It is currently free to use while in beta testing as we work out the bugs, but so far its getting quite popular, you can request thumbnails directly from your website using the code below :
http://thumbnailspro.com/thumb/http://msn.com&s=150
s=Size, size can be anywhere from 10 to 1000 pixels just add s=300 to display a thumbnail 300 pixels in width. We are trying to add more options as we go for thumbnail requests and at the same time trying to keep it as simple as possible so you don't have to enter something like the code below to get your thumbnails :
http://somethumbnailsite.com/viewurl.php?url=http://msn.com&x=200&y=300&bwidth=1024&bheight=768&rotate=76&what_the_hell%20_is_all_this_crap!
So is much more effecient!
Like the service or have any bugs contact us at admin#thumbnailspro.com!
No. The only way to do this is to request the HTML for the page, render the page and then create a thumbnail from that page render. Google does this because in the process of spidering the web, they already get all that data, and they've got a nice optimized rendering engine (Chrome) that they can put the data through, and then they've got tons of online storage space to store the cached image. There's a lot of work there, though.
Frankly I am not sure where this would go but I assume the way to create what I'm about to describe is PHP... so I'm sorry if it's in the wrong section.
Basically I have a website, using Wordpress, where users can review websites and post a 5 star rating of the site. Each reviewed website has it's own dedicated page.
So what I want to do is create an image from the statistics of the ratings to allow the website owners to place it on their page. The image will need to, when clicked, go to that it's review page.
So the image would be about 150x150. Have the overall 5 Star Rating, the Name of the Reviewed site and the name of my website. It would also be cool if there was some automatically generated HTML embedding code so the site owners can simply copy and paste it.
I hope I explained myself ok. I've tried searching google but I'm not entirely sure what to search for and therefore have found nothing useful.
Thanks.
EDIT
I can create the embed code manually. I just need to really know about how to make the picture update automatically.
Hey what you are asking for is quite complex and it would be to easy to just give you code. So here is some reading for you. Your problem is quite meaty and no doubt you'll learn loads sorting it out....
http://www.phptutorial.info/learn/create_images/
http://www.qualitycodes.com/tutorial.php?articleid=20&title=How-to-create-bar-graph-in-PHP-with-dynamic-scaling
I just need to really know about how
to make the picture update
automatically.
Just put URL to your php-script, which will generate image.
You will need function imagettftext to write text over the image, imagecopy to draw the stars (of votes).
Also, you will need image of a star and background.
So, approx. algorithm will be:
1. Open the background image by imagecreatefrompng - it will be our generated image
2. Open the Star image
3. Write title of the reviewed site by imagetttftext
4. Draw stars by copying existing Star image to our background image (by imagecopy)
5. Print generated image by imagepng
hey guys so im building an application and one of teh features it will have is the ability to show photo links from twitter inline sort of like what tweetdeck has done in their chrome browser version and sites like crowdreel have been able to do, i spent some time researching how to grab image tags from urls on google and found this fantastic script http://www.bitrepository.com/extract-images-from-an-url.html
the script is great and does exactly what i need, however now my challenge is that the array returned from the links returns every image in the page including thumbnails ads etc, so a link to a page like this: http://lockerz.com/s/69901787
will return an array with quite a few image links to sort through,
however what i need is a link to the main image so that i can display it inline with tweets, my idea is that i run some sort of code to figure out which of the images in the page is the largest? what are your thoughts on this? is this the right method or is there something easier thats built into php perhaps? thanks for all your help guys!
Once you have the links to the images you can pass them to the getimagesize() function in PHP.
Look at this example: http://php.net/manual/en/function.getimagesize.php#example-2267