Windows script to capture Spotlight images wanted


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Hi folks
Any equivalent of wget in Windows to capture images from a web site

In Linux it's easy enough -- e.g I want a spotlight image - after the robots=off you need the URL - the forum here has translated the URL but you need the actual URL. I think if you can install wget in the WSL you can run this in Windows too.

[hrafn@refur ~]$ wget -nd -H -p -A jpg,jpeg,png,gif -e robots=off Taughannock Falls State Park

processing starts ------

--2023-10-10 10:18:49-- Taughannock Falls State Park
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving bing.gifposter.com (bing.gifposter.com)... 172.67.179.129, 104.21.51.112, 2606:4700:3030::ac43:b381, ...
Connecting to bing.gifposter.com (bing.gifposter.com)|172.67.179.129|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
After some more processing it comes out with
-2023-10-10 10:18:50-- https://h2.gifposter.com/bingImages/TaughannockFalls_1920x1080.jpg
Resolving h2.gifposter.com (h2.gifposter.com)... 172.67.179.129, 104.21.51.112, 2606:4700:3030::ac43:b381, ...
Connecting to h2.gifposter.com (h2.gifposter.com)|172.67.179.129|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 284667 (278K) [image/jpeg]
Saving to: ‘TaughannockFalls_1920x1080.jpg’

TaughannockFalls_1920x1080.jpg 100%[=========================================================================>] 278.00K --.-KB/s in 0.03s

2023-10-10 10:18:51 (10.7 MB/s) - ‘TaughannockFalls_1920x1080.jpg’ saved [284667/284667]
And the picture is :
TaughannockFalls_1920x1080.jpg

Wget isn't always 100 reliable but it's one command with the URL so using the history file to get all the url's from the spotify images one could automate this whole process. It's probably easier in python or json but for this process it seems to work OK.

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Ghot said:
I mean the text under the pic. :-)
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it generates 5 files including a twitter icon - I didn't want the text !!! but it's available.

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FreeBooter said:
www.majorgeeks.com

How to Find, View, and Save Windows Spotlight Background Images in Windows 10 - MajorGeeks

Windows Spotlight can show you different backgrounds and suggestions on your lock screen. In this tutorial, we give you the option to view and back up all of your Windows Spotlight images.
www.majorgeeks.com
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This is simpler

1) create a txt file with all the URLs in it (I'm just using one for a test)

2) run this command

Screenshot_20231010_125004.png

open file with a web browser -- then you've got the text as well plus link if you want the full image. "Seemples and Q.E.D

Screenshot_20231010_125459.png
@Ghot

text is here !!!! as you can see in the link


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Here's a script for reading a text file filled with URL's, and downloading all wallpaper sizes. Note: it's written to parse bing.gifposter.com links, so it won't work on other sites without changes.

powershell -f bingposter.ps1 URL.txt
Code: 
if ($args.Count -eq 0) {
    exit
}

$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'

Get-Content $args[0] |% {
    Write-Host "Downloading $_"
    $HTML = wget $_
    ($HTML.Links | Where-Object { $_.outerText -match "Download" -and $_.download -match "jpg" }).href |% {
        $FileName = ($_ -split '/')[2]
        wget "https://bing.gifposter.com$_" -O $FileName
    }
}
 

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