Download all images from a single webpage

Question

I'm experimenting with PHP, and I've just asked myself a question. How can I download all images from a single website? Let's say that I wanted and images from cnn.com or any other website. Is there any easy way I can download all the images using PHP, and save them on my local computer (or FTP server).

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Not very easy, but not that hard:

Request the page using Curl , parse the HTML using DOMXpath and look for the src attributes of the images. Then download the images via Curl by adding the full http address to the image path/name.

Answer 2

If you wanted just all download all images referenced by img elements.

1. Request the remote file with something like cURL.
2. Use a DOM parser (such as DOMDocument) to get all img element.
3. Iterate over the img elements and use cURL (or similar) to download each image (check the src attribute).