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What's the best way to download thousands of images?


Lejon

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Hi guys,

I have links to about 150,000 images and want to download them, what's the best way to do it without crashing or eating memory?

p.s. 1: my CPU is i5-4430 and RAM is 8 GB.
p.s. 2: i have tried IDM with much less number than that and it was disappointing.

Any recommendation?

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If they are direct links you can add them to a txt file and open the txt with IDM (Internet Download Manager)

Every link by separated line

Dam i didn't saw you used IDM, but for me IDM will do it just don't add all links to 1 txt

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@flash48 @BALTAGY

I already have the links in a text.

i tried IDM before and it took it about 10 minutes to load 6000 links, it crashed with 45,000 links and blew my registry because it's saving its downloading information in there. so IDM is out of the plan.

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I did a quick search and i found it's a CLI software, and unfortunately I'm not that expert to deal with it.

P.S. the topic isn't about your favorite download manager, it's about the software which can handle a lot of links at once (150,000) smoothly.

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user@nsaneforums

I did a quick search and i found it's a CLI software, and unfortunately I'm not that expert to deal with it.

P.S. the topic isn't about your favorite download manager, it's about the software which can handle a lot of links at once (150,000) smoothly.

Wget can handle whatever number of links

just edit the txt by adding the Wget comand on every link/line & run the bat

wget http://download.com/filename.pngwget http://download.com/filename.pngwget http://download.com/filename.pngwget http://download.com/filename.pngwget http://download.com/filename.pngwget http://download.com/filename.pngwget http://download.com/filename.png....
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curl or wget as user@nsaneforums say
or even without third party tool with command like this:


if not exist c:\wallpapers mkdir c:\wallpapersbitsadmin /transfer /download http://hdwallpaperd.com/wp-content/uploads/distant_planet_3d-HD_11.jpg c:\wallpapers\distant_planet_3d-HD_11.jpgbitsadmin /transfer /download http://hdwallpaperd.com/wp-content/uploads/Free-Download-3D-HQ-Wallpaper.jpg c:\wallpapers\Free-Download-3D-HQ-Wallpaper.jpgbitsadmin /transfer /download http://hdwallpaperd.com/wp-content/uploads/desktop-backgrounds-hd-nature-wallpaper-hd.jpg c:\wallpapers\desktop-backgrounds-hd-nature-wallpaper-hd.jpgbitsadmin /transfer /download http://hdwallpaperd.com/wp-content/uploads/full-hd-animals-wallpapers.jpg c:\wallpapers\full-hd-animals-wallpapers.jpgbitsadmin /transfer /download http://hdwallpaperd.com/wp-content/uploads/hd-nature-wallpaper-3.jpg c:\wallpapers\hd-nature-wallpaper-3.jpgbitsadmin /transfer /download http://hdwallpaperd.com/wp-content/uploads/Hd-Wallpaper-Nature17_1.jpg c:\wallpapers\Hd-Wallpaper-Nature17_1.jpgbitsadmin /transfer /download http://hdwallpaperd.com/wp-content/uploads/hd-wallpaper-25.jpg c:\wallpapers\hd-wallpaper-25.jpg
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@user@nsaneforums @xanax

thanks guys, that's really a smooth way, just a couple of megabytes in ram :)

but it's a little bit slow being downloading image by image. so I'm thinking to speed it up by splitting the links on multiple batchs. or is there a setting i can do in a single batch to download multiple images simultaneously?

and another thing.. can i use a username & password or cookies when needed?

@clubhouse

i used to use that program some years ago and it was a good one, can grab pictures and download huge numbers of images without a fuzz. but i don't recall it can import and download direct links from text? or can it?

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When I need to download stuff (not limited to images) in volume, I just switch my IDM to Automatic Scheduler mode - my favorite number of files to download at a time is 3.

IDM continues to download one file after the other, silently - without User intervention (there is no additional resource hogging, either.)

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