My friend and I were Googling for free high quality frame images to use for a Photo-album we were working on. We came across a website that had over 60 picture frames with no archive link to download all of them once.
Downloading the images individually wasn’t considered an option by us as it will be time sapping and boring.
I am going to show us how to jump past the hurdle of downloading all images or multiple selected images found in a web page using your favorite web browser like Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer.
Method I
This method is very easy and works across virtually all web browsers. I have tested it in Opera, Google chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Visit the web page containing the images you want to download, press Ctrl+S
Clicking the Save button will download the web page in .htm or .html and all the images(Background and all CSS images inclusive), JavaScript and css stylesheet files present in the web page.
All you need do is, delete those unwanted css and JavaScript files and you are left with the images.
The Downloaded image folder can be found in the directory you saved the webpage in.
Method II
Say you don’t want to download all the web page images rather just some selected ones, then this trick is for you. The only demerit of it is, it works only on Firefox.
Follow the steps below to learn how it is done.
- Go to the website having the images you want to download.
- Right-click and select View Page Info
- Navigate to the Media Tab, select the images you want to download, click the Save As… button and save.
- After download completion, open the save-to folder and Voila! The images stirring at you.
Browser Add-ons
There are quite a number of useful browsers extensions that can take out the pain of downloading images.
Let’s take a look some extension / add-on available for Firefox and chrome.
Google Chrome
- Image Downloader – An extension to bulk download images from a web page.
When you press the “Download” button, all selected images are saved to the default download directory of Chrome. If you don’t have one, you will have to manually choose the save location for each image. - Image Downloader Plus – It get all images from a web page and either download the selected images as a zip file, save selected images in your Dropbox, or upload all images to Google Drive.
- Image collector extension – This extension provides you to download images on the page you visit quickly to your PC, Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive.
Firefox
- Save Images – Save Images saves the images from the current tab page, from the cache, to a specified location, with either the images original file name or a file name that you specify.
- Image Download Ⅱ – Save all images in current page or multiple pages by one click, with dimension filter, file type filter, loaded status filter, self-defined thumbnails detection, and other options and settings.
- DownThemAll – this is an excellent Firefox download manager. It offers an option to save all images or links on webpage.
- FastestFox – Browse Faster – With FastestFox user can download all images or links on webpage. Right click on webpage and click download page images.
I couldn’t find any image download extension for Opera.