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Softpedia Editor's Review for PicaLoader
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An application that searches, downloads and manages millions of pictures
Written by Elena Opris on December 14th, 2011
PicaLoader is a software that automatically downloads image files from any website.
The user interface of the program is standard. All you have to do is start a new project, set the output destination, add one or more tasks, and PicaLoader will start the job in no time.
Plus, you can select what kind of image formats will be downloaded and set the folder structure (standard or light project, create a subfolder for each task, recreate target website's folder structure), as well as rate pictures and sort them according to the rating.
But you can also set PicaLoader to accept duplicate pictures and restore original file time, input a username and password (if needed to connect to a server), set followed links (levels) and page links (location), as well as include page and picture URL filters, and use a HTML parser script.
You can easily track down pictures that PicaLoader has downloaded, since they are alphabetically organized in the output file.
However, the program is difficult to navigate through. Rookies would certainly get lost at their first attempt. It also crashed several times during a task, and the trial version is limited (as you can see by reading the product description below).
On the other hand, the help file has been greatly improved since our last revision, and the application uses a low amount of system resources. All in all, PicaLoader is a decent tool for downloading pictures from a website, but it definitely needs to be better organized.
 Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for PicaLoader
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PicaLoader description
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Here are some key features of "PicaLoader":
Connect to Internet:
· Multithread download, 50 max threads.
· Resume broken downloads.
· HTTP proxy servers are supported (Include most NTLM proxies).
Download Pictures:
· Advanced HTML Parser which can follow almost every link, include JavaScript, VBScript, and JScript links, and is secure against viruses and malicious scripts.
· You can customize HTML Parser with built-in script language.
· Advanced picture filters. PicaLoader includes several picture filter profiles, for example, High resolution photo, Gif Animation, 800X600 Wallpaper, 1024X768 Wallpaper, etc. You can even define your own picture filter profile to filter pictures by Size, Definition, Type, etc. PicaLoader filters pictures by analyzing the picture file's header recorder, so there is no need to download entire pictures which do not meet your criteria to local machine.
· You can use Perl-5 compatible regular expression in URL filter.
· You can pause the download at any moment, and you can modify the picture filter before you resume the download, when download paused, you can use queue browser to browse and manage the URLs in the queue.
· You can save every picture's name, size, creation time, download time, referrer URL, and notes made by you.
· Support manual login to sessionwise login site.
Manage Downloaded Pictures:
· Pagination, Thumbnail Browser, quick-load thumbnails, easy navigation between pages. Manage millions of pictures quickly and easily.
· When you downloading pictures, the new pictures are added to the browser immediately.
· You can sort pictures by name, size, width, height, time, notes, referrer URL, width*height, etc.
· You can search pictures by name, size, width, height, time, notes, referrer URL, etc, and display the search result in another thumbnail browser.
· You can check pictures on different pages and copy, move, or delete these checked pictures.
· You can set any picture as Windows wallpaper.
· You can set a password for your project, and others then cannot open your project without your password.
· Up to 700,000 pictures per Project.
View pictures:
· Preview pane, to view current selected picture.
· Full screen viewer, shrink images to fit the screen or view them full-size. View and scroll through full-size images quickly.
Requirements:
· Processor - Pentium class CPU - 200 Mhz
· Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
· RAM - 64 Mb
· Disk Space - 3MB free disk space and additional disk space for picture downloads
· Video - 800x600, 65536 colors
· Network - Connection to the Internet with TCP/IP protoco
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
· You can only download up to 500 pictures per session What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Add new function to HTML Parser Script: ParseHTML, you can change link information before add to queue.
· Queue browser performance enhanced.
· Enhance download engine, retrieve original filename from most PHP/ASP/JSP dynamic site.
· Add two variable for customize picture's filename: picture's URL and referral URL.
· Some minor enhancement.
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 | |  | | Softpedia guarantees that PicaLoader 1.7.1.8856 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. [read more >] |
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