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Crawl the web for photos save them to your computer with Nici.
There are countless photos on the web. The problem isn't a lack of photos, it is how to find the photos and view them efficiently.
The internet has made it easy for amateurs to upload their photos for anyone in the world with an internet connection to view. A case in point is the photos, on this page, of ski mountains!
A crawler is a technical term. Wikipedia defines web crawler as a program which browses the www in a methodical, automated manner. A web page is really just a bunch of words, formatting instructions (or "markup") and links to other things; other web pages. photos, music etc etc.
If a crawler was to browse this page in a methodical, automated manner ... it would firstly download it (just as your browser has) and then it would create a list of all the links on the page (like this one to our homepage). It would then download each link in turn and continue to repeat the process.
Nici is a photo crawler. If you were to browse to this page in Nici ... it would download it, create a list of links and then work out which links lead to photos. It would then download those photos and save them to your computer. In most cases Nici would recognize that the small thumbnail photos at the bottom of the page are not what you would be interested in, and instead follow the links behind the thumbs to the full size photos. Depending on your connection speed, Nici would crawl this page and save all the photos below in a couple of seconds or couple of minutes (if you are using a 56k modem)
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Another feature of Nici is the Auto Pilot. Many webpages exist that simply link to pages like this one ... a page containing 10-20 photos. Nici refers to these pages as directory pages For adult photos, these pages are often called TGPs.
If you browse to one of these directory pages in Nici, it will automatically crawl through all the links, selecting each one ... and crawling it ... and saving any photos (or movies) it finds. Literally you can enter one address into Nici and come back later to find that it has automatically saved 1000s of photos for you.
Below is a screenshot of Nici after it crawled this page for its photos:
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