How To Mass Download WebShots.com Albums Using Free Software

I was searching for a way to batch download an entire album from WebShots.com and I ran across several non-working plugins, and a few non-existent pages. With some tinkering I found out a simple way to batch download albums without a premium WebShots account. The catch is that you can only download 28 photos at a time (the max number per page that WebShots allows), so if you have more than a thousand photos to download and you’re pressed for time you may want to consider the premium membership, at least temporarily until you’re done leeching.

Required software:

FireFox v2.x

Download Them All! (FireFox plugin)

GreaseMonkey (FireFox plugin)

Thumbs2Links (GreaseMonkey script)

Now that you have all the above programs installed, go to your WebShots album, and click the 28 pics per page link that looks like this:

Now, at the bottom right of the screen you should see a link that says Get Direct Links!, click that shniz noz, and scroll to the very bottom of the page and you’ll see links begin to populate. Give it about 10 seconds to complete and it will look something like this (with 28 links total):

Now right click anywhere in the frame, and click DownLoadThemAll! When the DownLoadThemAll window appears, make a check next to Images, set yourself a download directory, and press Start

That’s it! Like I said, it sucks that you have to go to every page of the album to do this, but it’s better than right clicking each one to download them individually!!!

May you have many loud and smelly farts,
MastaG

PS: if you want to download videos, in the DownloadThemAll window just click Additional Filters and enter .flv then play the .flv files with something like Riva FLV Player, or any other flash video player.