Anyone else like to get around restrictions?

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 01/25/2019 at 20:47 • Filed to: None

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It drives me crazy when a website prevents me from easily downloading an image from their site. It’s not like I’m going to be using this stuff for commercial use; sometimes I just like to save things for use as wallpaper. It always feels like victory when I find the source directory and grab what I want when I want it. I shall not be thwarted...

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/25/2019 at 21:01

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Yep, easy enough to use developer tools to get at what you want.

I don’t like digging in folders though, I prefer to use the “Network” v iew in Chrome’s tools and then filter images (you need to reload the page to have things show up).

Tristan > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/25/2019 at 21:06

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I just open the image and use the snipping tool to steal it. I don't need high res for Oppo shitposting.

Saracen > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/25/2019 at 21:07

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Oh yeah, that’s me all the time.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/25/2019 at 21:26

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I LOVE getting around restrictions. In Chrome, finding the source image is just a right-click and inspect away.

My favorite is sourcing GIS data off of web-map sites for use in offline maps.

Many online map configurations still leave the data query functions open, so it’s easy to set up a script to pull down the data you need in chunks. 

Urambo Tauro > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/25/2019 at 21:27

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Yeah, every once in a while I’ll use my browser’s “inspect” tool to extract an image. It helps me give Kinja a thumbnail that it can actually use, like in this recent post that featured an Instagram video. I was able to pull the exact image that Insta uses for its own thumbnail.

Oh, and Twitter too. I don’t know why, but some Twitter images are immediately downloadable, while others I can only save through the inspect tool or some third-party downloader service. Really annoying. I hate Instagram the most though. They don’t even put progress bars or timers on their vids...

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/25/2019 at 21:37

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I have a Demotivator calendar. 6 year up at the office and counting.

atfsgeoff > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/25/2019 at 22:25

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Yep, been doing this for years.