It will download all the jpg, jpeg, png, gif files to your destination folder. It's very fast because of parallelization.
The downloader is based on the David Shaw's Tumblr_scrape. Check his code out and compare to mine to see what the changes are.
Differences from the original version:
- speed. I didn't measure it, but using 10 threads makes it approximately 8 times faster. Further increasing of threads didn't bring anything, but you can test it yourself.
- number of supported picture formats is also extended from |jpg and png| to |jpg, jpeg, png and gif|. One can add more formats easily by changing regexp in 2 places.
- code refactored a bit (if it became better or not is for you to judge)
go to the command prompt and type something like this:
ruby tumblr_pics_downloader.rb http://best-of-tumblr.tumblr.com
Some of the things I am still going to change include:
- add other websites so that you can get pictures not only from tumblr, but let's say, also from mmm-tasty.ru. If only I were a regexp pro it would be already done :)
- use trollop instead of parsing arguments manually (for such a simple script maybe there's no need, just wanna play with it a bit)
- save text if necessary (still thinking if I will ever need it)
If you like the idea and want me to further improve the code let me know by pressing the button.
Any suggestions are welcome.