Picture Grabber

Overview

This is the home page of the Picture Grabber, a customised web browser based around Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and incorporating the ability to select from a list of images on a web site and save them to disk automatically.

Details

The web is a plentiful source of images of all kinds, but when you come to download them, you usually find that you have to fetch them one at a time. In Internet Explorer, for example, you might have to:

click on a link to an image
wait for it to load
right click on the image
select ‘Save picture as…’
choose a file name and folder
click OK
click the ‘Back’ button
repeat for the next image

Boring. The Picture Grabber is intended to make life a little easier by letting you select the images you want from a list, then have the program download them in one go while you go off and make a cup of coffee.

System requirements

To use the Picture Grabber you will need:

a PC running Windows 95/98 or higher, Windows NT 4, or Windows 2000
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later installed on your machine (see below*)

* Microsoft's distribution license for the components of Internet Explorer (IE) mean that developers cannot include the individual components separately in their applications. Picture Grabber uses the core browser engine from IE4/5, and this must be installed on your machine before installing Picture Grabber. You are not required to use IE as your default browser, or indeed at all, but installed it must be.

You can obtain IE5.5 from many magazine cover CDs or by downloading it from Microsoft.

Downloading

Picture Grabber is supplied in zipped format so you will need a zip decompressing program such as WinZip to expand it after downloading. Once you have successfully unzipped the archive, see the file readme.txt for information on installing. The current version is 1.0.18, dated August 22nd 2001.

Important note: the current version of Picture Grabber was compiled under Windows 2000, but on some machines an installation problem may occur under that version of Windows. To avoid this, it is strongly recommended that Windows 2000 users download and install the specific Windows 2000 version. This problem will be resolved in a future version of Picture Grabber. The two versions are functionally identical.

Download Picture Grabber for Windows 95/98/NT (3.73Mb)

For Windows 2000 only (will not install under other versions of Windows):

Download Picture Grabber for Windows 2000 (2.90Mb)

If you are running Windows 95, 98, or Me and the current version 1.0.18 causes problems for you, then try the previous version (1.0.15) which you can also download from this site. You will also need the patch program to version to 1.0.17. Always try the current version first before reverting to these older versions.

Page last updated: March 14th 2004