Grabbing Image

[Purity8]

I've looked at many of the coding of AutoIt, but I wasn't able to find out if its able to grab an image.

I would like to automate an advanced (mouse) clicker that not only automate clicks & keystrokes, but be able to drag-n-drop images into folder locations.

[JLogan3o13]

@Purity8 how about a more detailed explanation of what you are trying to accomplish? There is doubtlessly a better way to move files around that with an image search.

[Purity8]

I'm trying to automate a way of saving images with drag-n-drop method.

Majority of the programs (like all those auto-mouse clickers) I've seen/used are mouse & keyboard based:

Go to x, y co-ordinates > right-click image > (left click) save image as > keystroke {enter}.

I mean, there's got be a better way. Even with add-ons/extensions, the basics are still the same.

[Danp2]

Still clear as mud. 😕

What application is the source of the images you want to save?

[Purity8]

No application.

These images are from websites. It doesn't need to be a specific domain.

Be warned, the website I'm about to link can be considered nsfw (now with all the people staying at home to work, hopefully there's no children around you)

<snip>

We are going to follow the forum rules and keep things clean.

Edited April 16, 2020 by JLogan3o13

[Danp2]

A web browser is an application, right? 😁 Which browser are you wanting to automate?

How do you decide which images to save? Do you want the script to grab a single image (beneath the mouse cursor, for example) or all images on the page?

[Purity8]

Well yes, I guess so Firefox is the application.

From what I know, majority of these are jpg files. Hmm..I guess the main single image so, yeah, beneath the mouse would be good.

All images isn't a good idea as the main feature image is maximize size while the rest are smaller versions of other galleries.

Edited April 16, 2020 by Purity8

[Purity8]

Sorry, double posted. Wasn't able to find the edit button before. I'm used to seeing edit around top of posts...

Edited April 16, 2020 by Purity8
Double posted, sorry

[Danp2]

You still haven't told us which browser. If you are using IE, then take a look at the built-in IE functions in the help file. Otherwise, you may want to take a look at FAQ 31

[Purity8]

Sorry, I've re-edit my post to add it in. I'm using FireFox.

Yeah, I've read that site. Maybe the previous ff.au3 was outdated.

A few days ago, that link went to a dead site.

 

Thank you 😊

Edited April 16, 2020 by Purity8

[Danp2]

Yeah... ff.au3 is dead AFAIK. You would have to use either IUIAutomation or the Webdriver UDF.

[Purity8]

Okay, thanks. I'll poke around those.

[Purity8]

Hm, many of the functions in WinHttp.au3 seem to be familiar to me. Are these c/c++ related?

[Danp2]

They are Windows API related.

[Bert]

You could just save the entire web page then just delete everything you don't want.

[Purity8]

That's okay, I'm used to being old fashion & doing things manually.

Do I really need everything there besides WebGriver (gecko)? Like the json?

Like I mentioned, WinHttp functions reminds me much of coding c/c++ in visual studio.

[Danp2]

@Purity8 Here's a simple example function --

Func DownloadImageBelowMouse()
    Local $sElement, $sURL, $sNodeName

    $sElement = _WD_GetMouseElement($sSession)

    If $sElement = "" Then
        Return 
    EndIf

    $sNodeName = _WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, 'property', 'nodeName')

    If $sNodeName <> 'IMG' Then
        Return
    EndIf

    ; Get the website's URL
    $sURL = _WD_Action($sSession, 'url')

    $sSource  = _WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, "Attribute", "src")

    ; Combine the URL and element link
    $sURL = _WinAPI_UrlCombine($sURL, $sSource)

    ; Download the file
    _WD_DownloadFile($sURL, @ScriptDir & "\testimage.png")
EndFunc

You'll need to code the rest of the script where you launch the webdriver, setup the hotkey, etc.

[Purity8]

Okay, thank you.

@Bert

On 4/17/2020 at 9:12 AM, Bert said:

You could just save the entire web page then just delete everything you don't want. 

 

On 4/16/2020 at 2:04 PM, Purity8 said:

All images isn't a good idea as the main feature image is maximize size while the rest are smaller versions of other galleries

 

edit:

Is there a limit of how many different

#include <*.au3>

files I can reference?

I remember using

<studio.h>

for programming C/C++.

Edited April 18, 2020 by Purity8
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[Purity8]

This is what I'm come up with so far. It's probably incorrect but...

Func _WD_Navigate($sSession, $sURL)
If ProcessExists("Firefox.exe") Then MsgBox($MB_OK, "Info:", "You've already opened FireFox!" & @CRLF & "Proceed to url.")
Else Return MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Info:", "Please Open FireFox.")
EndFunc

Func DownloadImageBelowMouse()
    Local $sElement, $sURL, $sNodeName

    $sElement = _WD_GetMouseElement($sSession)

    If $sElement = "IMG" Then
        Return MsgBox($MB_OK, "Info:", "Yay, you've found an image!")
    EndIf

    $sNodeName = _WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, "GET", "JPG")


    If $sNodeName <> 'IMG' Then
        Return MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Info:" , "Is this an image type?")
    EndIf

    ; Get the website's URL
    $sURL = _WD_Action($sSession, 'http://m.54mn.cc/m/8964/1.html')

    $sSource  = _WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, "GET", "1.jpg")

    ; Combine the URL and element link
    $sURL = _WinAPI_UrlCombine($sURL, $sSource)

    ; Download the file
    _WD_DownloadFile($sURL, @ScriptDir & "\1.jpg")
EndFunc

 

Edited April 18, 2020 by Purity8
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