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What are your favourite add-ons/extensions on Firefox? (lemdro.id)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have only one option, then. Video grabber utility in IDM/XDM. I think you can feed multiple links for batch download in them, and they auto fetch video files from website to download without browser. IDM on Windows is a lot more robust, if you do use Windows. Get it from Lrepacks, its safe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there is some misunderstanding... there are a lot of ways of downloading a list of URLs. For videos I use yt-dlp.

I didn't know about IDM/IDX, I asume they are Internet Download Manager and Xtreme Download Manager, right? From what I see those are independent programs and not Firefox add-ons (correct me if I'm wrong).

What I find weird is that, what Bazzacuda can achieve if I have multiple tabs with i.imgur.com/.../...jpg URLs does not work if I change the jpg extensions with mp4. But I'm probably missing something (or not explaining myself properly).

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know what you are saying, exactly same way videos instead of tabs. There is nothing like Bazzacuda for it. Its a very unique tool. You either use yt-dlp or IDM/XDM for batch videos. (Yes you figured correct names.) Gallery-dl exists for image galleries btw, on that note, exactly like yt-dlp.

Bazzacuda is just built different. Its the reason why I shared it, since that Image Max URL you told about is intriguing. It makes the job easier than reverse searching image with Yandex (which is the best method I use).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Got it, thanks for the patience :)

It makes the job easier than reverse searching image with Yandex (which is the best method I use).

Regarding reverse image search, this is the bookmarklet I use to lauch 5 different searches at once. On firefox you can set a keyword so I just type rev on the navbar on a tab with an image.

If the page has more than 1 images, it tries to print a number on each one so you can specify which one you want to search... but that feature doesn't work very well. Removing that, the script would be much more simpler.

pretty-print reverse image searches bookmarklet

(function() {
    var url;
    var args = '%s';
    var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName("img");
    var imgIdx = undefined;
    if (imgs.length == 0) return;
    if (imgs.length > 1) {
        if (args.length > 1) imgIdx = parseInt(args[1]);
        if (imgIdx === undefined || isNaN(imgIdx) || imgIdx &lt; 1 || imgIdx > imgs.length) {
            numberImgs();
            imgIdx = parseInt(prompt(`There are ${imgs.length} images, select index:`, 1));
        }
        if (isNaN(imgIdx) || imgIdx &lt; 1 || imgIdx > imgs.length) return;
        url = imgs[imgIdx - 1].src;
    } else {
        url = imgs[0].src;
    }
    if (!url) return;
    url = encodeURIComponent(url);
    window.open("https://saucenao.com/search.php?url=" + url);
    window.open("https://lens.google.com/uploadbyurl?url=" + url);
    window.open("https://www.bing.com/images/searchbyimage?cbir=sbi&amp;imgurl=" + url);
    window.open("https://www.tineye.com/search?url=" + url);
    window.open("https://yandex.com/images/search?rpt=imageview&amp;url=" + url);

    function numberImgs() {
        var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName("img");
        for (var img = 0; img &lt; imgs.length; img++) {
            var parent = imgs[img].parentElement;
            if (!parent) continue;
            var numberDiv = document.createElement("div");
            numberDiv.innerHTML = 1 + img;
            numberDiv.className = "tmpImgNumberDiv";
            numberDiv.style.position = "absolute";
            numberDiv.style.padding = "2px 9px 2px 6px";
            numberDiv.style.background = "#f00";
            numberDiv.style.color = "#fff";
            numberDiv.style.zIndex = "9999";
            numberDiv.style.lineHeight = "normal";
            parent.prepend(numberDiv);
        }
        setTimeout(function() {
            var imgNumbers = document.getElementsByClassName("tmpImgNumberDiv");
            var idx = imgNumbers.length - 1;
            while (idx >= 0) {
                imgNumbers[idx].remove();
                idx--;
            }
        }, 5000);
    }
})();

One-liner:

javascript:(function() {var url;var args = '%s';var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName("img");var imgIdx = undefined;if (imgs.length == 0) return;if (imgs.length > 1) {if (args.length > 1) imgIdx = parseInt(args[1]);if (imgIdx === undefined || isNaN(imgIdx) || imgIdx &lt; 1 || imgIdx > imgs.length) {numberImgs();imgIdx = parseInt(prompt(`There are ${imgs.length} images, select index:`, 1));}if (isNaN(imgIdx) || imgIdx &lt; 1 || imgIdx > imgs.length) return;url = imgs[imgIdx - 1].src;} else {url = imgs[0].src;}if (!url) return;url = encodeURIComponent(url);window.open("https://saucenao.com/search.php?url=" + url);window.open("https://lens.google.com/uploadbyurl?url=" + url);window.open("https://www.bing.com/images/searchbyimage?cbir=sbi&amp;imgurl=" + url);window.open("https://www.tineye.com/search?url=" + url);window.open("https://yandex.com/images/search?rpt=imageview&amp;url=" + url);function numberImgs() {var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName("img");for (var img = 0; img &lt; imgs.length; img++) {var parent = imgs[img].parentElement;if (!parent) continue;var numberDiv = document.createElement("div");numberDiv.innerHTML = 1 + img;numberDiv.className = "tmpImgNumberDiv";numberDiv.style.position = "absolute";numberDiv.style.padding = "2px 9px 2px 6px";numberDiv.style.background = "#f00";numberDiv.style.color = "#fff";numberDiv.style.zIndex = "9999";numberDiv.style.lineHeight = "normal";parent.prepend(numberDiv);}setTimeout(function() {var imgNumbers = document.getElementsByClassName("tmpImgNumberDiv");var idx = imgNumbers.length - 1;while (idx >= 0) {imgNumbers[idx].remove();idx--;}}, 5000);}})();

The 5 searches it launches are (replacing XXXX with the image URL):

Google: https://lens.google.com/uploadbyurl?url=XXXX
Bing: https://www.bing.com/images/searchbyimage?cbir=sbi&imgurl=XXXX
TinEye: https://www.tineye.com/search?url=XXXX
Yandex: https://yandex.com/images/search?rpt=imageview&url=XXXX
SauceNAO: https://saucenao.com/search.php?url=XXXX

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An extension that does this with over 30 image search engines is Search By Image, a Mozilla recommended extension. Check the developer's GitHub (dessant). On the one off occasion, I also use ImgOps.com, but almost always, I never need to go beyond using Yandex. They are the only search engine that, unlike Google and Bing, did not cripple theirs. Although I am starting to see them putting up captchas more frequently (less than Cloudflare or Google) with any searches that might be related to adult or piracy content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An extension that does this with over 30 image search engines is Search By Image, a Mozilla recommended extension

I don't know how I missed that until now, thanks!! I will try it right now.

I also use ImgOps.com

Yeah, that's what I was using for a while and what motivated me to write the bookmarklet to avoid going through it every time.

Regarding the different searches, I found that they cover very different needs:

TinEye: usually the best when you want (almost) exact matches.
Yandex: probably the stronger as a general search
Google: in my experience, the best to "understand" the image and identify the object / subject even if there are no real matches for that image
Bing: you sometimes get lucky with it when the others fail
SauceNAO: the most convenient to find the original pages for DeviantArt, ArtStation and Twitter images.