# Easy way to download all of the images on a web page?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 10, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970 "2004-09-10T22:46:54Z")
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### Author:  [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970/1 "2004-09-10T22:46:54Z")
Is there a quick way to download/extract all of the images on a web page? Safari, Netscape, et al just let me save as HTML, as text source, or, gruelingly, download each image one at a time. IE will let you make a one-file web archive, but then I can’t get at the image files later.
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### Author:  [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970/2 "2004-09-10T23:28:18Z")
Are the images on the webpage links or thumbnails? If so, then use [Flashget](http://www.amazesoft.com/index.htm). After it has been installed, by right-clicking there will be two new options. “Download with Flashget” and “Download all with Flashget”. Choose download all with Flashget and then you can choose the file types you want to download (eg. bmp, gif, jpeg) or you can choose individual files. It works only with IE so far.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Doubt)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970/3 "2004-09-10T23:45:43Z")
Check [versiontracker.com](http://versiontracker.com) for SiteSucker. It’s a freeware Mac OS X app
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> SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site’s HTML documents, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. Just enter a URL and click a button and SiteSucker can download an entire web site.
–from the readme file
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Doubt)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970/4 "2004-09-11T00:01:03Z")
[http://www.sitesucker.us/](http://www.sitesucker.us/)
Or go straight to the source.
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2004, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970/5 "2004-09-11T09:52:36Z")
IE also gives you the save as ‘complete web page’ option, which is different from the one-file web archive you speak of, the .mht format.
For ‘complete web page’, it saves the basic HTML, rewriting all the dependency links to point into a subfolder that it downloads the dependent files (images, style sheets etc) into. Can be quite handy
Also, there are ways to take apart the .mht format… I think that winzip will open it up if you ask. (although there isn’t any naming information for the different objects inside the archive.) Basically it’s just a variant of one of the multipart MIME types, used for a local disk file. 🙂
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970/6 "2004-09-12T00:21:42Z")
I once saved a page as an mht file locally, then brought up the local file in my browser (IE). I then saved it as “web page, complete” to see what would happen. It saved it pretty much as the original page, except the images had generic names instead of the original names.
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### Author:  [@Omphaloskeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omphaloskeptic)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970/7 "2004-09-12T20:32:16Z")
Recent versions of Mozilla allow you to save the entire page (save as “Web Page, complete”); all supporting images are saved to a folder.
If you want to save linked images (when only thumbnails are shown on the main page) and prefer command-line utilities, you can use [wget](http://g7-mac3.fy.chalmers.se/cgi-bin/man2html?wget) (link goes to a manpage), available through a lot of Unixlike shells (like [Cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/)). With wget you can spider through a whole tree of webpages if you want.
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970/8 "2004-09-12T20:46:41Z")
Interesting posts-here’s a question: I saved a page several years ago, and it is a .htm which I cannot paste into an email, a word doc, or import into Photoshop.
Will the utilities discussed above assist with my problem? Many thanks.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-download-all-of-the-images-on-a-web-page/263970/9 "2004-09-12T22:02:45Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#):
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> Interesting posts-here’s a question: I saved a page several years ago, and it is a .htm which I cannot paste into an email, a word doc, or import into Photoshop.
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> Will the utilities discussed above assist with my problem? Many thanks.
If it really is a web page, it should work. You can always rename it from a .htm file to a .html file with no ill effects.