Language Settings

The language settings allow you to change the text within the program to the selected language. Simply choose a language from the list and click ok. Your product will now use the selected language for all display text fields. If you encounter an error where some fields are still in the previous language, simply close and restart the program.

Proxy Settings

This is where you configure proxy settings. If you are using this product at work, and you are having trouble using the product, you may be behind a proxy firewall. You will need to enter your proxy server settings in this area to use this product with a proxy firewall.

Proxy IP
This is the IP address of your proxy server. This field is required.

Proxy port
This is the port number of your proxy server. This field is required.

Proxy user
This is your account login name to your proxy server. This field is optional.

Proxy password
This is your account login password to your proxy server. This field is optional.

SOCKS type proxy
If you are using a SOCKS proxy, you must check this option, otherwise, leave this unchecked.

Enable
This is the enable / disable option. If you enter any information above, you can enable and disable the proxy usage without removing any settings.

E-Mail (SMTP) Settings

This is where you configure your outgoing email settings. If you use product features such as file email or export email, you should configure this setting. Once this setting is configured, it will appear each time you use an email capable feature. To configure this setting, you must know your Internet Service Provider (ISP) mail server name and port. Most mail servers use port 25 so you can leave this as default. To obtain your ISP’s mail server name, either contact your ISP or you can check the mail settings in your email program (such as Outlook) and find the SMTP server name.

Host
This is the mail server host name. You can usually find this in the settings for your email program under SMTP server or outgoing mail settings. This field is required.

Port
This is the the standard port for SMTP mail. Leave this at 25 unless you know your mail server uses a different port number (rare case). This field is required.

The license error wizard will appear if there is a problem loading your product license. If your computer environment changes, such as renaming your computer, this error will occur. This wizard will repair your product license by creating a new license entry.

If you have an activated license, you will need to re active the license again after the repair is complete.

System Change

This display simply notifies you of that a system environment change has cause an error with your license file. Click next to repair your license.

License repair

This display shows the result of the license repair. A license repair will take only a few seconds and your product is ready to use again.

If you have an activated license, you will need to re active the license again when the program is restarted.

The error wizard is generally used when a program startup error occurs. If this happens, the program cannot start and the reason is shown in the error wizard. When you click next on the screen, the error is reported to DataFire Technologies INC and the knowledgebase is searched for a possible solution. If a solution is found, the information will display in the final page of the error wizard.

Error description

This display shows the general error message in the text area. In some cases the general error message has enough information for you to resolve the issue. Otherwise you can click next to reach the solutions page.

Error details

This display shows the full detail of the error message and a print out of your system runtime environment. All of this information is sent as an error report when you click on next.

Sending error

This page shows the status of sending the error report and checking for solutions. This step requires an internet connection for communication to the error report server.

Error solutions

The final page will give you information about solving the error. Some errors may not have a solution at the time of reporting to the knowledgebase. If no solution is available, you may see a general message with links to the online forums.

This area will send selected files as attachments via email. This feature is useful for sharing files with friends in a quick and easy method.
This initial page shows the selected files and the total size of all the listed files. These files will be sent as attachments to an email so that others can have the same files.

Delivery Settings

At this page, you specify how the email is sent through the internet. If you already know your email SMTP server (advanced) we suggest that you enter this information in this page. Otherwise the email will attempt to send directly to your email recipient(s). The direct method will not always work depending on your ISP (internet service provider) which may block sending mail directly.

Attempt to send mail directly without using a mail server.
This is the default option that will attempt to send your email directly to the recipient(s) email addresses.

Send email using a mail server
This option is the fail proof method of sending email messages. To use this option, you must know your Internet Service Provider (ISP) mail server name and port. Most mail servers use port 25 so you can leave this as default. To obtain your ISP’s mail server name, either contact your ISP or you can check the mail settings in your email program (such as Outlook) and find the SMTP server name.

Host
This is the mail server host name. You can usually find this in the settings for your email program under SMTP server or outgoing mail settings.

Port
This is the the standard port for SMTP mail. Leave this at 25 unless you know your mail server uses a different port number (rare case).

Email details

From here, you specify where to send the email message and who it is from. All fields are required on this page.

My name
This is where you type in your name, and it will appear as the sender of the email.

My email address
This is where you type in your email address.

Send email to
This is where you type in one or more email addresses to send the files to. If you enter more than one email address, you must use a comma ‘,’ to separate the addresses.

Subject
This is the subject of your email message.

Optional message

From here, you can set an optional message to be sent with the email.

Optional message
This text field lets you type in an optional message to go along with your email. You can type in any message of any size, or you can skip this page. Click next when you are ready to continue.

Sending email

From here, you will see the status of sending the email message.

The delete files wizard shows all files and folders in the base directory and lets you select which files and folders to delete. You can select individual files, folders or all items in the display.

Select files to delete

The display shows a tree with files and folders, each with a checkbox for selection. When you select a folder, all files in the folder become selected and the parent folders will indicate a selection was made. If a selected folder is the only child of a parent folder, the parent will be deleted as well. Use the Select all or Select none buttons to check or uncheck the entire tree of items.

Review files to delete

This display shows all the selected files and folders to delete. Review this page carefully and make sure that you agree with the list of items to delete.

Deleting files

The final page will delete all selected files and folders. You will see a progress bar which indicates the advancement of the delete process.

The product activation area is where you enter a product license key and transform your product from a trial version into a full version. When you activate your product, this area will no longer appear and you will become the licensed owner of the full version.

To obtain a product license and activate your product, please visit our product license purchase page.

Yes I would like to activate now
Choose this option if you have purchased a product license and would like to activate the product.

No I will activate later
Choose this option if you do not have a product license.

No I will activate later

If you have selected ‘No I will activate later’ then you will arrive at this page. This page will help you get the license key that you will need when your trial expires. To get a license key, simply click ‘Get a license key’ and your browser will open a web page for purchasing a license.

Yes I would like to activate now

If you have selected ‘Yes I would like to activate now’ then you will arrive at this page. This is where you paste or type in the license key. We recommend using the paste option to ensure a valid key is entered. If you do not have a license key, simply click ‘Get a license key’ and your browser will open a web page for purchasing a license.

Activating license

This is the status page where the license server is contacted. If you entered your license correctly then your product will be activated. Otherwise an error message will appear with the reason for failure.

Web Image Collector 2006 is a fully featured product limited to a 15 day trial. If you decide that you like WIC and want to use it beyond the trial period, you must activate your copy of WIC.

To activate WIC, you must first purchase a product license. After you purchase a license, you will receive a license key. Simply copy and paste this key into the activation area of WIC to complete the activation.

First Step - Purchase A Product License
To purchase a product license for WIC please visit the product license purchase page

At this page you must specify the number of product licenses to purchase. Click on the continue button and you will arrive at a login screen. Enter your username and password or if you are a new user, click the create an account button.
After this, you will arrive at the checkout page where you can pay with a credit card or by PayPal.

Second Step - Get Your License Key
After your purchase is complete, you will arrive at the invoice page. The invoice contains your license key and you will also receive an email with your license key to keep in your records. You will also find your license key in the ‘product licenses’ section. To reach the product licenses section, simply click the product license link on the left menu. You can access the product licenses section at any time to retrieve your license key should you need it again in the future.

Highlight and copy the license key so that you can paste the text of the key into WIC.

Third Step - Activate WIC
Start WIC or select File > Activate from the menu.

You will see the Product Activation Wizard.

Select the option ‘Yes I would like to activate now’ and click next. You will then see a page where you can paste or type in your product license key. Paste in your product license key and click next.

You will now see the final page with a status bar. WIC will connect to our license server and verify your license key. When this is completed, you will have an activated full version of Web Image Collector.

Web Image Collector can be configured using advanced settings to skip images using several different rules. These rules can check the image width and height, the image file size, and the image file name so that unwanted images are not saved on your computer.

When you create a new image collection, there are several rules that are automatically set. You may want to adjust these rules before you start collecting images.

To configure WIC to skip unwanted web sites or images, you need to edit an existing image collection or select the use advanced features checkbox when creating a new image collection. To learn more about how to reach this screen, please read the tutorial on how to use advanced features.

Configure The URL Filter

This is where you control the filter of including or excluding web pages and images based on one or more keywords. The keywords can be free text such as the word ‘puppies’ and every time a URL to a web page or an image is encountered, the URL is compared to the keywords in the filter list. If any of the keywords are found within the URL, the URL will be skipped or included based on the filter setting. The case of the keywords is ignored, so you can enter ‘PUPPIES’ or ‘Puppies’ and have the same result.

For example, if your keyword list contains the word ‘puppies’, and WIC encounters the URL www.somesite.com/images/puppies.jpg then the filter will include or exclude the image based on the Filter mode.

Disable filter
This option will disable or turn off the filter. All entries in the filter list will remain, but will not be used.

Include only listed items
This option will include all URLs to web pages and images that contain one or more items in the list. This option results in a very limited set of results.

Exclude all listed items
This option will exclude all URLs to web pages and images that contain one or more items in the list. This option results in a clean and more specific set of results.

Configure The File Filter

This is where you control the filter of including or excluding images based on the file types. For example, you can include or exclude images of .JPG, .PNG and more. The case of the keywords is ignored, so you can enter .JPG or .jpg and have the same result.

Disable filter
This option will disable or turn off the filter. All entries in the filter list will remain, but will not be used.

Include only listed items
This option will include all images that contain one or more items in the list. This option results in a very limited set of results.

Exclude all listed items
This option will exclude all images that contain one or more items in the list. This option results in a clean and more specific set of results.

Configure The Image Size Filter

This is where you control the filter of including or excluding images based on the width and height of the image. This page includes a size list for specific image dimensions to filter, and it includes a minimum and maximum dimension filter. As images are downloaded to your computer, they are compared to the options on this page to determine if they should be skipped.

For example, if an image of 460 wide by 180 high is encountered, the dimensions are compared to the filter list and minimum / maximum settings. If you specified a maximum image size of 400×400, the image is skipped. If you specified a minimum image size of 500×100, the image is skipped. If you specified an exclude filter and specified an entry of 460×180, the image is skipped.

Disable filter
This option will disable or turn off the filter. All entries in the filter list will remain, but will not be used.

Include only listed items
This option will include all images that have the exact width and height dimensions specified in the list. This option results in a very limited set of results.

Exclude all listed items
This option will exclude all images that have the exact width and height dimensions specified in the list. This option results in a clean and more specific set of results. You can use this option to filter out common advertisements and more.

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. This option is useful for filtering out thumbnails.

Maximum image size
You can specify a maximum width, height, both or none. For example if you set a maximum width of 500 and a maximum height of 500, all images larger than 500×500 are skipped. You can leave the heigth field empty and just specify a maximum width of 500 so that an image of 60×600 is downloaded. You can also reverse this and leave the width field empty. To disable this option, leave both width and hight fields empty.

Configure The File Size Filter

This is where you control the option of image file size filtering. This option allows you to set a minimum and or a maximum file size in kilobytes (KB). When images are downloading, they are compared to these options and if the file size does not meet the minimum or maximum settings, the image is not downloaded.

Minimum file size
This is the smallest allowable file size in KB. Images smaller than the number here will not download. If this field is blank, this option is ignored.

Maximum file size
This is the largest allowable size in KB. Images larger than the number here will not download. If this field is blank, this option is ignored.

Web Image Collector 2006 includes a built in email feature to send one or more images to one or more email addresses. To use this feature, select one or more thumbnails in the display area. You can select an image by clicking in the grey area outside of the image, but within the thumbnail container square.

The following image shows selected images in the display area.

Click the email button on the toolbar. Note: This button is disabled until you select images in the main thumbnail area.

Files to Send

After clicking the email button, you will arrive at the email files wizard.

This initial page shows the selected files and the total size of all the listed files. These files will be sent as attachments to an email so that others can have the same files.

Delivery Settings

At this page, you specify how the email is sent through the internet. If you already know your email SMTP server (advanced) we suggest that you enter this information in this page. Otherwise the email will attempt to send directly to your email recipient(s). The direct method will not always work depending on your ISP (internet service provider) which may block sending mail directly.

Attempt to send mail directly without using a mail server.
This is the default option that will attempt to send your email directly to the recipient(s) email addresses. This option works in most cases however your internet service provider may block this channel of communication. If you have troubles using this option, you should use the second option of sending email using a mail server.

Send email using a mail server
This option is the fail proof method of sending email messages. To use this option, you must know your Internet Service Provider (ISP) mail server name and port. Most mail servers use port 25 so you can leave this as default. To obtain your ISP’s mail server name, either contact your ISP or you can check the mail settings in your email program (such as Outlook) and find the SMTP server name.

Host
This is the mail server host name. You can usually find this in the settings for your email program under SMTP server or outgoing mail settings.

Port
This is the the standard port for SMTP mail. Leave this at 25 unless you know your mail server uses a different port number (rare case).

Email details

From here, you specify where to send the email message and who it is from.All fields are required on this page.

My name
This is where you type in your name, and it will appear as the sender of the email.

My email address
This is where you type in your email address.

Send email to
This is where you type in one or more email addresses to send the files to. If you enter more than one email address, you must use a comma ‘,’ to separate the addresses.

Subject
This is the subject of your email message.

Optional message

From here, you can set an optional message to be sent with the email.

Optional message
This text field lets you type in an optional message to go along with your email. You can type in any message of any size, or you can skip this page. Click next when you are ready to continue.

Sending email

From here, you will see the status of sending the email message.

The proxy server settings allow you to use Web Image Collector from behind a proxy firewall. If you have trouble reaching the internet using WIC, or if you know that all web (HTTP) requests must go through a firewall, then you must configure the proxy settings.

To configure the proxy settings, on the menu select Tools and then Global Settings.

Proxy Settings

To use this area, you must obtain the proxy server connection information from your computer. Usually these settings are available in your web browser’s options area under the connection settings. You can simply copy and paste these settings from your browser to this screen.

Proxy IP
This is the IP address of your proxy server. This field is required.

Proxy port
This is the port number of your proxy server. This field is required.

Proxy user
This is your account login name to your proxy server. This field is optional.

Proxy password
This is your account login password to your proxy server. This field is optional.

SOCKS type proxy
If you are using a SOCKS proxy, you must check this option, otherwise, leave this unchecked.

Enable
This is the enable / disable option. If you enter any information above, you can enable and disable the proxy usage without removing any settings.

Web Image Collector can automatically log into numerous membership web sites. It supports several different methods that are used on the web for membership login. When you add your login name and password to the image collection settings, you can then access membership areas and download member access images.

A small number of web sites use advanced membership login methods and WIC may not be able enter the membership areas. For example some web sites use javascript manipulations to alter your login information. Others may require that you type in a cryptic phrase from an image. These sites are currently not accessible by WIC using the automatic login feature.

If you are not sure what type of membership login a site uses, you can always try and see if WIC can enter the membership area.

Configure Your Login

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.

The language settings allow you to change the text within the program to the selected language.

To change the language, on the menu select Tools and then Global Settings.

Simply choose a language from the list and click ok. Your product will now use the selected language for all display text fields. If you encounter an error where some fields are still in the previous language, simply close and restart the program.

WIC is the perfect tool for collecting images from one or more web sites. It gives you the ability to download all images from a single web page or from the entire web site. WIC can also search the entire web for images based on one or more keywords.

Getting started

When you first start Web Image Collector (WIC) you will arrive at the startup screen. Simply click the Start button in the center to create your first image collection.

New Image Collection Wizard

The first step in using WIC is to create an image collection. This is how you tell WIC the images you want and where to save them. At the first page of the New Collection Wizard, you have three options and a text field. Select an option and type in your search text in the field.

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.

Collecting Images

After you click on Finish, you will be asked if you want to begin the image search. Click yes and you will see activity in the bottom log area. WIC is now searching multiple web pages. As images are downloaded to your computer, they will appear as thumbnails in the main window.

Search completed
Depending on what and where you are searching for determines how long WIC downloads images. Sometimes the search will end right away and other times it can run for hours. You can force the search to stop by clicking the stop button on the toolbar.

Web Image Collector can be configured using advanced settings to skip images that are too small such as thumbnail images. These images are usually the small version of the image that you want to download. In some cases WIC will download both the thumbnail and the full size image to your computer. To adjust this, you can use the minimum width and height restriction to filter out thumbnails and other small images.

When you create a new image collection, there are several rules that are automatically set. One of these rules is to skip all images smaller than 50 x 50 in pixels. This amount may not be enough to filter out some thumbnails, depending on the web site you are collecting images from.

To configure WIC to eliminate thumbnails and small images, you need to edit an existing image collection or select the use advanced features checkbox when creating a new image collection. To learn more about how to reach this screen, please read the tutorial on how to use advanced features.

Configure The Image Size Filter

To eliminate small images and thumbnails, you need to use the minimum image size settings on this screen.

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.

Configure The File Size Filter

You can also eliminate small images by setting a minimum file size. Most small images also have a small file size and can be ignored by WIC.

To eliminate small images and thumbnails, you can optionally set a minimum file size.

Minimum file size
This is the smallest allowable file size in KB. Images smaller than the number here will not download. If this field is blank, this option is ignored.

Web Image Collector 2006 includes a built in slideshow feature to display all the images downloaded to your computer.

To use the slideshow, you must first have images downloaded to your computer.

To launch the slideshow, simply click on an image in the thumbnail window. You will now see the slideshow window and the image you clicked on. This window contains a toolbar at the top with meda player type buttons. These buttons allow you to view the next and previous images in full size. You can also start and stop the slideshow feature using the play button. This feature will loop through all thumbnail images in the collection.

Image scale

To the right of the toolbar there is a sliding scale. You can use this option to change the zoom level on the images. Once you change the zoom level, it will stay at that amount through the slideshow presentation.

Image delete

If you encounter an image that you want to delete, simply click the delete button to remove the image from your computer.

Add a New Image Collection

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.

Edit an Image Collection

This page lets you control how WIC will search 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.

Directory Page

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/

Login 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.

Links 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.

Duplicates Page

These are the options for processing duplicate images. An image is a duplicate if there is already an image of the same file name downloaded to the target folder.

Skip duplicate images
This option will force WIC to skip (not download) duplicate images

Overwrite duplicate images
This option will force WIC to download and overwrite duplicate images

Save duplicate images with different file name
This option will force WIC to download and save the duplicate image with an index sich as _1 or _2 in the filename.

File Size Page

This is where you control the option of image file size filtering. This option allows you to set a minimum and or a maximum file size in kilobytes (KB). When images are downloading, they are compared to these options and if the file size does not meet the minimum or maximum settings, the image is not downloaded.

Minimum file size
This is the smallest allowable file size in KB. Images smaller than the number here will not download. If this field is blank, this option is ignored.

Maximum file size
This is the largest allowable size in KB. Images larger than the number here will not download. If this field is blank, this option is ignored.

Page URL Filter

This is where you control the filter of including and excluding web pages based on one or more keywords or regular expressions. Keywords are free text values that are compared to every URL found on a web page. Regular expressions are like wildcards on steroids which give you unlimited power to filter URLs.

If a URL contains the keyword, or if the regular expression matches the URL, it is either included or excluded in the image search. Both the include and exclude list can be used together for a more powerful search. Keywords are not case sensitive.

For example, if you have a URL Include List of: puppies;bulldogs
and you have a URL Exclude List of: thumbnails;kittens

then the following URLs would be included:

http://www.test.com/puppies/index.html
http://www.test.com/puppies/bulldogs/index.html

and the following URLs would be excluded

http://www.test.com/dogs/index.html
http://www.test.com/puppies/thumbnails/index.html
http://www.test.com/puppies/bulldogs/kittens.html

URL Include List
This is a list of keywords separated by the ‘;’ character. All URLs that contain any of the keywords in the list will be included in the search. All other URLs will be rejected.

URL Exclude List
This is a list of keywords separated by the ‘;’ character. All URLs that contain any of the keywords in the list will be excluded from the search.

Image URL Filter

This is where you control the filter of including and excluding images based on one or more keywords or regular expressions. Keywords are free text values that are compared to every image URL found on a web page. Regular expressions are like wildcards on steroids which give you unlimited power to filter image URLs.

If an image URL contains the keyword, or if the regular expression matches the image URL, it is either included or excluded in the image search. Both the include and exclude list can be used together for a more powerful search. Keywords are not case sensitive.

For example, if you have a URL Include List of: puppies;bulldogs
and you have a URL Exclude List of: thumbnails;kittens

then the following URLs would be included:

http://www.test.com/puppies/mutts.jpg
http://www.test.com/puppies/bulldogs/aaa01.jpg

and the following URLs would be excluded

http://www.test.com/dogs/pitbulls_kittens.jpg
http://www.test.com/puppies/thumbnails/mutts.jpg

URL Include List
This is a list of keywords separated by the ‘;’ character. All image URLs that contain any of the keywords in the list will be included in the search. All other image URLs will be rejected.

URL Exclude List
This is a list of keywords separated by the ‘;’ character. All image URLs that contain any of the keywords in the list will be excluded from the search.

Image Filter Page

This is where you control the filter of including or excluding images based on the width and height of the image. This page includes a size list for specific image dimensions to filter, and it includes a minimum and maximum dimension filter. As images are downloaded to your computer, they are compared to the options on this page to determine if they should be skipped.

For example, if an image of 460 wide by 180 high is encountered, the dimensions are compared to the filter list and minimum / maximum settings. If you specified a maximum image size of 400×400, the image is skipped. If you specified a minimum image size of 500×100, the image is skipped. If you specified an exclude filter and specified an entry of 460×180, the image is skipped.

Disable filter
This option will disable or turn off the filter. All entries in the filter list will remain, but will not be used.

Include only listed items
This option will include all images that have the exact width and height dimensions specified in the list. This option results in a very limited set of results.

Exclude all listed items
This option will exclude all images that have the exact width and height dimensions specified in the list. This option results in a clean and more specific set of results. You can use this option to filter out common advertisements and more.

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. This option is useful for filtering out thumbnails.

Maximum image size
You can specify a maximum width, height, both or none. For example if you set a maximum width of 500 and a maximum height of 500, all images larger than 500×500 are skipped. You can leave the heigth field empty and just specify a maximum width of 500 so that an image of 60×600 is downloaded. You can also reverse this and leave the width field empty. To disable this option, leave both width and hight fields empty.

File Filter Page

This is where you control the filter of including or excluding images based on the file types. For example, you can include or exclude images of .JPG, .PNG and more. The case of the keywords is ignored, so you can enter .JPG or .jpg and have the same result.

Disable filter
This option will disable or turn off the filter. All entries in the filter list will remain, but will not be used.

Include only listed items
This option will include all images that contain one or more items in the list. This option results in a very limited set of results.

Exclude all listed items
This option will exclude all images that contain one or more items in the list. This option results in a clean and more specific set of results.

HTTP Headers Page

This is where you control any specific HTTP headers sent to the web sites as WIC is searching. This is an advanced feature which is not needed in most cases. There are no disable or enable switches for this option, therefore whatever entries you set here are sent to all web page and image requests. For example, if you specify the header of User-Agent as Mozilla, all requests to web pages use the header entry - User-Agent Mozilla.

This section covers installation steps for each supported operating system. Please scroll down and find your operating system, then follow the install steps.

Linux

After downloading WIC for Linux, you must untar the install file.