Add a New Image Collection


Select your search type

This page lets you control where WIC searchs for images. The following options are available.
Search for images at the web site
This option lets you specify a web address (URL) to a web site or a page within a web site. Images found on that web site will be saved to your new collection. If you want to collect images from one web site, a web site address such as: http://www.datafire.com
Search for images at the web site in sequence
This option lets you specify a web address (URL) to a web site or to an image, and you can include incrementing alpha or numeric values. For example the following URLs are in sequence:

http://www.test.com/001/images.html
http://www.test.com/002/images.html
http://www.test.com/003/images.html

To have WIC crawl these pages, enter the URL of http://www.test.com/[001-003]/images.html

Here is another example, this time, the following URLs are for images in sequence:

http://www.test.com/images/example_a.jpg
http://www.test.com/images/example_b.jpg
http://www.test.com/images/example_c.jpg

To have WIC download these images, enter the URL of http://www.test.com/images/example_[a-c].jpg

The following options can be placed within the “[]” brackets:
Numerical:
(you can pad as many leading zeros as needed)
[0-999999999]
[01-992]
[000032-000039]

Alpha:
(you can start and end at any letter of the alphabet)
[a-z]
[A-Z]
[a-Z]

Multiple:
(you can combine as many sequence indicators as needed)
http://www.test.com/[02-18]/images/[A-Z]/example_[d-x].jpg

Search the web for images using keywords
This option lets you specify keywords to seach the entire web for related images. You can specify one or more keywords based on the images you would like to find. You can use standard search engine tokens around keywords such as:

“Pitbull puppies” (exact phrase)
+Puppies -pitbull (include / exclude)
+Puppies +Pitbull (match any)

Search TGP sites for images using keywords
This option lets you specify keywords to seach TGP (thumbnail gallery post) web sites. TGP sites are web galleries used for posting images usually of an adult nature. You can use standard search engine tokens around keywords such described above.

Links settings

You will see this page only if you selected a search type of “Search for images at the web site” or “Search for images at the web site in sequence”. All other options will skip this page.

This is where you control how WIC follows links found on the web. The Page links option controls how WIC processes links to web pages. The Image links option controls how WIC processes links to images. The Link depth option is used in combination with the Page Links - Follow all links to web sites setting. It controls how many web sites to follow based on the originating link.

(Page links)
Do not follow links
This option restricts WIC from following web links. This is useful when you need to collect images from one web page an no others. This option is not useful for keyword based searches.

Follow links within web site
This option allows WIC to process only the links belong to the main web site you are searching. For example, if you are searching www.datafire.com and WIC finds a link to an external web site, such as www.java.com, then WIC will ignore that link. This option is not useful for keyword based searches.

Follow all links to web sites
This option will allow WIC to process any and all web links found. This option can lead to many stray and unwanted images if you are searching by a website address (URL). If you are searching by keywords, this is the best option to use.

(Image links)
Follow links within web site
This option allows WIC to collect images only on the web site you are searching. For example, if you are searching www.datafire.com and an image on the site is at www.java.com, the image will be skipped.

Follow all links to web sites
This option will allow WIC to collect images from all web links found. If you are searching by keywords, this is the best option to use. For example, if you are searching www.datafire.com and an image on the site is at www.java.com, the image will be downloaded.

Link depth
This option is used in combination with the Page Links - Follow all links to web sites setting. The depth is the maximum number of chained URLs that WIC will follow based on domains.

For example, if you are searching www.datafire.com, and you specified the Page Links - Follow all links to web sites setting the following may happen:
WIC searches www.datafire.com and finds a link to www.java.com
WIC searches www.java.com and finds a link to www.netbeans.org
The link at www.netbeans.org is a link depth of 2 because it is 2 links underneath the original search URL of www.datafire.com. Since web sites may link to other external web sites, WIC can end up processing an infinite number of web sites. Using the link depth option will restrict WIC from following every web link and focus more on the top level sites of related interest.

Thumbnail settings

You will see this page only if you selected a search type of “Search for images at the web site” or “Search for images at the web site in sequence”. All other options will skip this page.

Minimum image size
You can specify a minimum width, height, both or none. For example if you set a minimum width of 50 and a minimum height of 50, all images smaller than 50×50 are skipped. You can leave the heigth field empty and just specify a minimum width of 50 so that an image of 60×10 is downloaded. You can also reverse this and leave the width field empty. To disable this option, leave both width and hight fields empty.

Login settings

You will see this page only if you selected a search type of “Search for images at the web site” or “Search for images at the web site in sequence”. All other options will skip this page.

This is where you can specify a username and password to automatically login to membership based sites. This feature works with basic authentication, simple web based forms, and AVS membership sites.

A web site that uses basic authentication will always prompt you for a username and password using a popup window from your browser. For these sites, use the login name and password fields.

A web site that simple web based forms will have a username and password form on the web page and it does NOT contain an image with a number or phrase to type in as a passcode. For these sites, use the login name and password fields.

A web site that uses AVS (adult verification system) membership such as Adult Check, Adult Pass and others will have a single ID field. For these sites, use the AVS field.

Login name
This is where you specify a login name for your membership ID

Login password
This is where you specify your login password for your membership ID

AVS Membership ID
This is where you specify your AVS membership ID or password. If your AVS membership has both a user ID and password, then use the login name / password fields instead.

When using the membership login option, it is always best to start WIC at the membership sign in page.

Choose a folder

This is the path on your computer where you would like to store the downloaded images. You can type in the path in the directory field or click the browse button to select a directory.

Create subfolders for images
This option controls how images are saved on your computer. When this option is disabled, or unchecked, images are stored in the specified directory. Otherwise, if this option is enabled, subfolders are created in the specified directory to mirror the layout of the web site images came from.

For example, if this option is enabled, and WIC finds images at the following sites:
http://www.somesite.com/images/beach/index.html
http://www.somesite.com/images/picnic/index.html
The following folders will be created within your specified directory:
www.somesite.com/images/beach/
www.somesite.com/images/picnic/

Name this collection

This is where you name the collection you are about to create. You can create as many collections as you like, so it is useful to give this collection a unique name.

Save and continue editing with advanced features
If you check this box, you will save your new collection and open the site edit options. The site edit options allow you to specify more advanced search criteria. For information on the advanced features, see Editing an Image Collection article.