Adjusting Project Settings

Every item in the Project options dialog has an information tool tip. To see quick info about any option, point mouse cursor over desired control and wait a moment. The tool tip will appear and provide information for the selected control.

Edit Project Options dialog overview

Project options can be accessed using keyboard by pressing Alt+LETTER.
Where LETTER is an underscored letter on the desired option label.

• REQUIRED Address
  This control allows to enter one or more starting addresses
• REQUIRED Select type of site you want to start from
  Use this control to define Site Type - This is very important control!
• REQUIRED Project Title
  Here you need to type in the title for the project
• REQUIRED Save Files To
  Location of root folder for the media files downloaded within this project. PictureRipper will use it to save downloaded media files and create required sub folders, as specified by "Gallery Folder Names" option.
• REQUIRED Max Link Depth
  This is maximum link level PictureRipper can descend from the starting address. To easily determine this number just count how many manual clicks does it take to get to the actual picture. Then add 2-3 extra "clicks" to be sure and enter the result into the field. Each site type has its own default value of link depth so you may leave it as is.
• Password...
  Opens up the dialog window so you can provide password and user name to access password protected sites.
• Download
  These check boxes allow to select what kind of media files you want to download.
  • Images
  • Videos
  • Custom
    Enables downloading of custom file types. You have to define file extensions for custom file types using the Program Options dialog (F12). For your convenience there is button labeled "Edit..."
  • Edit...
    This is a shortcut to the "Media types" page in the Program Options dialog. Click this button to adjust what media file extensions you want. File extensions for images and videos are hard coded, but user can provide own "custom" file type. One should enter file extensions separated by space, comma or semicolon. For example: ".exe .zip .pdf", or "exe, zip, pdf" or even ".exe;zip, pdf". There are no strict rules, because PictureRipper will try to correct the input if it contains errors
• Keep History
  If enabled, PictureRipper will keep history of downloaded files. This is useful if you want to avoid downloading of the media files that were already downloaded in previous session(s). For example site has 10 images named 01.jpg trough 10.jpg and next day they add 10 more images. This is obvious that you want to download the new images only. PictureRipper will look into the history file and if target file already exists then it will be skipped. Projects that have history files are marked with "H" in the square. It is advised that user should delete the history file from time to time, because each session adds new entries and, therefore, the history file grows. To delete the history file, right-click on the desired project and select menu item "Project Files", then "Delete History". Also, you may delete project files using Windows Explorer. All history files have "*.PRH" extension.
• Gallery folder names
  Select desired way to create sub folders inside your download folder on your hard drive. There are six options available.
  • Good for TGP sites Use gallery counter
    PictureRipper will put all images linked from HTML pages into separate folder and name that folder by using pattern "Gallery_NNN", where NNN is a gallery counter value.
  • Use unique gallery name
    PictureRipper will use unique string as a name to create folders for downloaded media files. The unique string is a MD5 hash of the gallery URL. This is useful if you run the same project several times a day. Since gallery folder name is created using URL of the gallery page, you can be sure no images from one gallery get mixed with images from another one. This feature has a drawback - the gallery names look really weird, e.g. "6b7807872a88cc2e79ba5bef9c45d45a", but unlike "Recreate folder structure" and "SMART:Recreate folder structure" you do not have your images and movies buried in several levels of sub folders and may access them faster using the Folder pane. The length of folder name is always 32 alpha-numerical characters.
  • Obtain gallery name from URL
    PictureRipper will use URL to create sub folders. Some special characters that cannot be used in file names, will be removed. This option is similar to the "Use unique gallery name" one, but it will have more human readable names, while length of folder name may be really long.
  • For Small Sites ONLY Put all images in one folder
    PictureRipper will not be creating any sub folders and all downloaded images will be placed in a heap. To prevent images with the same names to be overwritten by each other, every image name will be assigned an unique integer value in square brackets, e.g. cute[12124].jpg. This is important to understand that Windows have a limit on number of files that can be stored in one folder, so please use this option for small picture sites.
  • Good for TGP sites Recreate folder structure from URL
    This option will recreate folder structure using target URL. For example if image Picture.JPG is linked from URL http://somesite.com/somegallery/gallery.html then PictureRipper will create the following folder tree:
    • \somesite.com
      • \somegallery
        • \gallery.html
    Therefore, the image Picture.JPG will be saved in folder named "\gallery.html". Please note that "\gallery.html" is not a file, but a folder with an "extension". This option works well until PictureRipper encounters site that has images embedded into HTML pages - one image per one HTML page. This often is a case with picture sites, rather than TGP galleries. TGP galleries link directly to images, so when you click on a link your browser opens image directly, not a page with image accompanied by navigation buttons, banners, counters, etc. In the latter case, PictureRipper will have to create separate folder for each image and this is not convenient. Although this option will still work fine with most of TGP sites.
  • Good For ANY Site Type SMART: Recreate structure from URL
    This option is similar to the previous one, but it works a bit smarter. It will try to detect images embedded into HTML pages and you will have one folder with say 20 images, instead of one folder and 20 sub folders with one image per sub folder.
  • Good for TGP sites Use Current Date This is very useful, if you want to keep your daily downloads separated by the date. Those who download images and movies from TGP on almost a daily basis will love this feature. With this option enabled, PictureRipper will create a folder with date and use the selected folder creation method. For example, if you use "Use gallery counter" then PictureRipper will create folder structure like the one below:
    • \6-24-2003
      • \Gallery_100
      • \Gallery_101
      • ...
      • \Gallery_NNN
    • \6-23-2003
      • \Gallery_100
      • \Gallery_101
      • ...
      • \Gallery_NNN
• Ignore File If ...
  Use these controls to enable or disable File Filter Features of PictureRipper. More info...
• Enable Shortcuts
  If enabled, PictureRipper will place Interenet Explorer shortcut to the target folder. The Shortcut will point to the gallery page the images were downloaded from. If folder has the shortcut, the thumbnail pane context menu will have item labeled "Visit Website".
• Don't overwrite
  If enabled, PictureRipper will not overwrite file in the target folder if the file prepared for downloading has the same name.
• Ignore Or Search For Keywords...
  Use these controls to enable or disable Keyword Filter Feature of PictureRipper. More info...