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FoxySpider is a Web crawler for image and video enthusiasts
I still remember the day fondly. I was 16 and I had just got my first broadband connection. 512 kilobits of pure DOWNLOAD! Ten times the bandwidth of my dial-up modem! Unlimited traffic! To this day I'm still amazed at how quickly I filled my 20GB hard drive with porn. But that's beyond the point -- back then, you had to either painstakingly Right Click > Save As on every image and video, or rely on a bunch of really crap standalone Web crawlers.Fast forward to today and collecting
FoxySpider is marketed as a porn crawler. Out of the box it will crawl all images and videos on the page you're currently viewing, but it has tons of options. You can change the crawl depth, make it ignore files without thumbnails and change how many files are concurrently downloaded. You have complete control over the file types that are downloaded, so if you want to crawl music files, documents or indeed any file extension, FoxySpider also has you covered.
The output galleries are configurable too -- thumbnail size, background color and so on. There's no option to automatically save the galleries you create, however!
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Subscribe to comments216Aug 13th 2010 1:22PM
+1 For the first paragrah and honesty lol
LorenAug 13th 2010 1:32PM
Okay yes, we all know what the internet is for, but is talk about porn on a supposedly professional blog really necessary?
JohnMWhiteAug 13th 2010 1:50PM
It's a blog about downloading stuff. People download porn. I don't see the problem. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it, and you're welcome to complain about it, but the authors of any blog, professional or not, do not owe anyone the right to not be offended by what they choose to discuss.
Anyway, this does seem a handy tool. People collect images for all sorts of reasons and being able to swiftly pack them together saves a lot of time.
AemonyAug 13th 2010 2:12PM
"Download Squad's primary editorial mission is to seek out the best in tools, utilities and applications, browser add-ons, distractions, time-wasters and other facets of your digital lifestyle."
If you know that the Internet is for porn, wouldn't you then also assume that porn is a facet of your digital lifestyle? Sebastian upheld their professional mission while being honest and funny at the same time without bending over for such a thing called censorship. Professional or not, I'd like my writers to be a bit more personal, honest and human without people like you complaining all the time. Nobody is forcing you to read it, if you don't like it don't read it.
FoxySpider seems to be a perfect crawler to let loose on sites such as Konachan.com and Wallbase.net, and the occasional _interesting_ galleries I come across.
KualaBeeAug 13th 2010 4:26PM
Firefox + noscript + foxyspider + sandboxie+Private browsing
Protect yourself from cyber STDs