If you ever had the desire to download images, photos and videos from websites, blogs or forums then Bulk Image Downloader might be exactly the program that you are looking for. The downloader makes it easy as pie to download those media files from websites. All that you actually have to do to get the program working is to supply an url of the website containing the images or videos.
Bulk Image Downloader will automatically download the page, scan it for media references and add those found to the queue. This process works with most websites out there be it Flickr (full image download support), Youtube, Facebook photo galleries, picture posting blogs or Vbulletin forums.
The image downloader works regardless of the way the images are posted or the software that is used to power the website. One of the interesting features is that Bulk Image Downloader can recognize many so called image file hosts that are used to host the full versions of the images and photos.
Most image downloaders will download the thumbnail images only if pointed at the website containing those thumbnails. Bulk Image Downloader will however calculate the address of the full image from the information provided by the thumbnail and add that real image to the download queue instead of the thumbnail even if the target website is an html page and not the image.
Some of the image hosts that are supported are Imagevenue, Imagefap, Imageshack, Megaupload or Photobucket.
Even better is the fact that the program provides access to an advanced configuration that allows experienced users to add their own regular expressions to add new file hosts or edit existing ones.
The advanced configuration does contain general configuration settings besides the ability to maintain an ignore list, include list, redirect list and JavaScript sites with regular expressions.
It is here that users can add or remove the program’s web browser integration, cache settings, automatic deletion of images below a certain file size and program folders for the queue, retry batch folder and log file.
The standard configuration settings are directly accessible in the second tab of the program. It can be used to change the number of download threads, web browser integration, from which browser cookies should be loaded (for sites requiring authentication), if downloads should be resumed and after how many retries the individual downloads and page downloads should be stopped.
Images that are recognized by Bulk Image Downloader can be displayed as text links or small, medium or large thumbnails before downloading the full sized pictures. This is an excellent opportunity to check the images before they are downloaded which can for instance be used to remove selected ones from the download queue.
One of the most powerful features of Bulk Image Downloader has been added to the beta of Bulk Image Downloader 3. The program now supports page ranges in the url. Lets say you encounter a website or forum that contains lots of pages that each contain images, e.g. www.example.com/page1/, www.example.com/page10/ and so on.
Bulk Image Downloader 3 supports brackets to download all pages and photos from those pages. To download the pages 1 to 10 from the above website one would simply add the url www.example.com/page[1-10]/ to the address list in the image downloader.
Each page will be downloaded and processed individually by Bulk Image Downloader and every image or video found will be added to the download queue.
Bulk Image Downloader offers web browser integration for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome (in the latest beta). If the option is enabled a Bid right-click submenu becomes available that can be used to send the active page to the image downloader. Another option that has been recently added is the ability to drag and drop pages into the program’s interface. Cookies from that browser will be used if those options are used.
Verdict
Bulk Image Downloader is an incredible program. It works out of the box and the developer’s are making sure that it stays that way. It is definitely one of the easiest and most convenient image downloaders – if not the easiest and most convenient – that is currently available on the Internet.
New features are added all the time and the devs are very responsive to customer suggestions.
Christmas Giveaway
We have ten licenses of this awesome program. If you want one leave a comment and let us know why you would like to have it.
Raju is giving away licenses for Axialis Iconworkshop Professional today, make sure you check it out.
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yes i looking for this program, can you give a licence ?
It might be very useful for Flickr image downloading, I hope to get a license!
Give it to me… Love having different images in my collection for projects., Blogging or just to share with others.,
Can I get this program license?
Thanks
I often read forum with very long threads of pages where I would like to download all the images in the thread but I just could not click through hundreds of pages!!! Bulk image downloader sounds like exactly the program I have been looking for and would really be useful to me! It would save me heaps of time and make possible tasks I would have previously considered to laborious to attempt before! Please please give me a license – I know I could really make use of it!
Useful program, thanks…
this is a gret tool to download festivity pictures just pointing to the adrdress and bulk image downloader will take care of that.
I hope to get one license. I like the software.
i download lot of wallpaper from different site and it is very a long task.
with this i’ll save lot of time
thanks
Please enter me, thanks.
will it work with all the forums?
just wondering whether similes are included?
This program can help me out in downloading my album collection easily.
Great giveaway offer! Thanks.
please add me id love this for my son as hes well into this thankyou
I read a lot of tutorials on the net and sometimes i want to save it for future view, but some tut have a huge collection of pic, so bulk downloader will be great for that.
Hi! I have a website and would love to have access to this utility, so I can improve what it looks like!
Could put Bulk Image Downloader to good use. Please send me a license for the use of this terrific software package. Thnx, and Merry Christmas!
Another great prize in this wonderful giveaway.
Grabbing images off my favorite sites would be really cool. Thanks
I tried the limited trial version and found that it was one of the only programs that could actually do what it claims to do. Thanks for the chance to win this great software.
Thanks a million for this opportunity!
Thanks for the giveaway! In for one.
This would really, REALLY come in handy for me, too many times I come across image galleries where I have to open and save images one by one. This would be perfect for me.
One thing that is very interesting (to me) is the ability to download the actual images, not thumbnail. Usually I have to open the original image before I could stored in my computer. It is not difficult if only one image alone, but what if you want lots of pictures downloaded? It must bother.
So, if indeed Bulk Image Downloader have ability like that, would be very nice if I could get a license.
Thank you.
I need to download lot of image files for the website I am developing. This will be of very useful to me.
Thanks.
wow this is a good one. Very nice to download from say flickr and google images. Pls consider me. I would like to have this one.
please enter my name into the draw :-)
This program will help me download free wallpapers offered by various websites. Please count me in. Thank you