Save Antman's Photos!
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[MENTION=65614]Antman[/MENTION]... there is possibly one other route you could take. Seeing as you are stressed for time.
If by any chance you saved your photos in folders per each mod in your build thread.
Like...
Camera
Mirrors
Oil Change
Etc.
If you have that or can easily create a Folder per Mod situation.
You could buy, for I believe $99 1TByte of space at DropBox
So you could simply make a top folder named...
T4R
--Oil change
--Mirrors
--Etc
So you have that on your PC and DropBox will simply grab it and upload it in the background. You don't have to do anything. You could have it all on your hard drive or one of those little external drives.
T:\T4R\Each Mod Folder Full of Pics
Then give access to T4R and anyone that wanted could simply retrieve the photos they needed for whichever Mod they were interested in. Then you could take the rest of the money and have some time to get a more organized setup going.
But that would be almost no work as DropBox does all that in the background... and you would not have to pay PB. As well you would have all the time you need to come up with a better permanent solution.
That's just the only 'no work' solution I can think of.. and that depends on your having your photos sorted or being able to easily sort them.
If by any chance you saved your photos in folders per each mod in your build thread.
Like...
Camera
Mirrors
Oil Change
Etc.
If you have that or can easily create a Folder per Mod situation.
You could buy, for I believe $99 1TByte of space at DropBox
So you could simply make a top folder named...
T4R
--Oil change
--Mirrors
--Etc
So you have that on your PC and DropBox will simply grab it and upload it in the background. You don't have to do anything. You could have it all on your hard drive or one of those little external drives.
T:\T4R\Each Mod Folder Full of Pics
Then give access to T4R and anyone that wanted could simply retrieve the photos they needed for whichever Mod they were interested in. Then you could take the rest of the money and have some time to get a more organized setup going.
But that would be almost no work as DropBox does all that in the background... and you would not have to pay PB. As well you would have all the time you need to come up with a better permanent solution.
That's just the only 'no work' solution I can think of.. and that depends on your having your photos sorted or being able to easily sort them.
nglayton
Senior Member
photobucket embed fix
If you are using a desktop with chrome browser here is a fix. Add this extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-embed-fix/naolkcpnnlofnnghnmfegnfnflicjjgj
I installed on my mac and it's working great, but I suspect it won't last for long.
If you are using a desktop with chrome browser here is a fix. Add this extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-embed-fix/naolkcpnnlofnnghnmfegnfnflicjjgj
I installed on my mac and it's working great, but I suspect it won't last for long.
That helps, but if you try to save a picture it still ends up as a blocked photo.
You can view the thread now though. I was also able to capture the thread as an animated gif with licecap.
Still not ideal, but it works in the event Chrome addon gets disabled.
There are a couple of possibilities there (haven't researched):
- Does vBulletin have an API that would allow you to script a scraping of your posts to find/edit image urls?
- If not, is there a vBulletin Perl (or other) module that exists for more easily scraping the forum posts (I'm not seeing it if so)?
- If neither of the above, you could build an generic scraper using your language of choice (that allows http gets/posts) and pull it that way
Best of all would be if one of the first two options allowed editing in place, but worst case you would be able to mass update your bbCode, allowing you to simply paste the edited code back in the threads (still a lot of work, but less hunting).
Edit: They (vBulletin) appear to have a module for an integrated wiki... https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=309676
It almost feels like some of this content might live more productively in a wiki... but again, you'd want to be able to mass extract it.
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phillyd2
Senior Member
1engineer
Moderator
There is a reason things like the "Tire Fitment Chart" is still up and running with no issues. I also don't trust any third party site. I just do it myself.
BTW I'm back from Fl. Writing up the Tacoma versus 4Runner article now.
mybabydaddy
New member
I read that and thought the same.... Never really considered myself completely ignorant in too many areas, but this is evidently one of them!
Sorry...
The main takeaway was meant to be that there are, in fact, ways that you might reduce some (but far from all) of the inconvenience that this has caused. Mostly in the realm of pulling ALL of the posts one has made, identifying images, and the (maybe) updating the image information that has changed.
I'll grant you that the above description does a better job of making that point than the jargon does. So, point taken.
The main takeaway was meant to be that there are, in fact, ways that you might reduce some (but far from all) of the inconvenience that this has caused. Mostly in the realm of pulling ALL of the posts one has made, identifying images, and the (maybe) updating the image information that has changed.
I'll grant you that the above description does a better job of making that point than the jargon does. So, point taken.
phillyd2
Senior Member
It was more a commentary on ME being too damn dumb to understand what you said.
Today I started the process of updating my build thread. It’s a very tedious process:
Edit the post
Find the picture name
Find the same picture on Flickr
Insert new picture Flickr code
Edit formatting.
:frusty:
Friggin awesome fix. Thanks for posting!
5280 TRail-Runner
New member
The process is going to be a pain in the ass regardless if there is an API or tool or program that can help. There is no way of updating an entire thread without extensive coding and that requires and API connection. Accessing API to this site is probably not an option so I would chalk that idea.
I used to migrate website content for companies so if I can offer any advice on how to make this process go faster, this would my process of updating.
First things first, go to Photobucket and download the entire album(s). The option is found below the share links on the right. Once downloaded, you'll need to unzip the file. Once done, all of your images you uploaded will be there with the original name followed by numbers/letters. (this is probably Photobuckets way of making sure each image on their server is unique to avoid conflicts.) You can remove the numbers/letters or leave them. If you plan on using flickr, i wouldn't bother renaming them since original name is not used in the share links like Photobucket. Upload all of the images to the new hosting service.
Now to editing the post.
Have 2 separate browsers opened or multiple window/tabs opened. Put the browser windows side by side. One will be for you to leave up to view the post/images and the other will be for editing the post. On the browser used for viewing, open up a new tab log into your flickr account or whatever you are using in place of Photobucket.
On the edit browser, edit the post you want to update. On the view browser, go to the same post and if you right click on the photobucket image and "Open Image in New Tab". That should open up your image in a new tab and show you what the image is. Now switch to the flickr tab, find the image and grab the code and update the post, save, rinse and repeat.
Again, this will be a pain in the ass regardless for all of those who use photobucket but updating post by post is probably the best option.
This is a really good find! As long as Photobucket doesn't find out, it may be around for a while! If it gets removed, it'll be a matter of time before someone else creates something else similar to this extension and people will keep doing it until Photobucket can find a way to prevent it from happening.
phillyd2
Senior Member
Thanks. All of my pictures are already in Flickr so no need to download them from PB. I'm doing pretty much what you suggested but have a tab for the build thread and one for flickr.
When editing the post it shows the picture name so its just the process of searching flickr for the same one and then coping the BBCode over.
Sometimes the BBCode posts a massive picture but that only happens every few times and then I need to post a smaller one.
Another annoying thing flickr does is along with the picture it also brings over some sort of tag information at the beginning and end of the so that needs to be edited out.
We put a man on the moon and I can't believe there is not a ALT-CTR-SHIFT- PB-F7 command to do it automatically. Damn geeks :tea:
When editing the post it shows the picture name so its just the process of searching flickr for the same one and then coping the BBCode over.
Sometimes the BBCode posts a massive picture but that only happens every few times and then I need to post a smaller one.
Another annoying thing flickr does is along with the picture it also brings over some sort of tag information at the beginning and end of the so that needs to be edited out.
We put a man on the moon and I can't believe there is not a ALT-CTR-SHIFT- PB-F7 command to do it automatically. Damn geeks :tea:
Dang it, the chrome photobucket plugin no longer worky! That was quick.
nglayton
Senior Member
I had a feeling it wouldn't last long. I bet an update or another one will pop up soon.
nglayton
Senior Member
Here's another one that looks like it's been around a bit longer. Maybe this one will last.........
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-hotlink-fix/kegnjbncdcliihbemealioapbifiaedg
JohnTheLuck
Member
What would be the impact on this forum if everybody with PhotoBucket links modify their threads and replace these links with attachments into T4R post? At one point, the size of the database would increase badly and increase the cost to the owner? Someone would have to pay!!!
Go here...... https://www.whois.net/
Type this in search box.... TOYOTA-4RUNNER.ORG
You will find his registered name and address about 1/2 way down the results list of info.
ATTN: -- there is a link in this following thread 'favorville' that Bitdefender flags as malware. Be warned if you read the thread and click the links.
--- https://www.toyota-4runner.org/off-topic/14726-favorville-com-now-beta.html
...and GatorGreg has not posted since early 2016 ... https://www.toyota-4runner.org/search.php?searchid=5462496
Type this in search box.... TOYOTA-4RUNNER.ORG
You will find his registered name and address about 1/2 way down the results list of info.
ATTN: -- there is a link in this following thread 'favorville' that Bitdefender flags as malware. Be warned if you read the thread and click the links.
--- https://www.toyota-4runner.org/off-topic/14726-favorville-com-now-beta.html
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