Monday, May 23, 2011

How to save pictures from websites without right clicking (Firefox)

I don't have time to post about anything else (HelloPro! Time #4 screenshot post is coming soon, I promise. If you don't want to wait, here is HPT4's download link) nor do I have anything quick that is ready to upload so here is a quick tutorial.

When I was writing the post on Yaguchi's marriage, I wanted to get the photo directly from the Oricon site that broke the news. If you go to that news article and try to right-click anywhere on the page, you are greeted with this:





You don't even need to know Japanese to understand what it says (for the record it says "Context menu not available.").

So, you have to find other ways to get the picture. My option of choice is browsing through that page's HTML to find the picture and stealing it that way. Let me explain.

Firefox users should enable the Menu Bar and go to View > Page Source. A new window appears with a bunch of text:

And it goes on and on and on. Don't worry, you don't have to read through all of that. You should press ctrl + f on your keyboard to open up the search bar. Type in jpg (because most websites use .jpg files for their pictures) and you can easily search through the giant wall of text for any images. You'll want to find a .jpg that is after an "img src" tag.


Found it!

To make sure it's the picture you want, just click on the link.


That's the one! To save it, just copy and paste the URL from before (in this case its http://contents.oricon.co.jp/upimg/news/20110522/87951_201105220364127001306052460c.jpg ) into the address bar and now you can right-click, save as, as usual.

Here's all of that in video form just in case any of it was unclear.

11 comments:

  1. ...AWESOME! -will try next time-

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  2. @Kylon: Ah, that works too, but when you do that the picture isn't full-size. My method gets you the original full-size picture in HQ, so give it a try.

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  3. Or you can just disable javascript. In Opera you press F12 and then just click on disable JavaScript, and voilĂ , you can rightclick all you want!

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  4. @Paz: Thanks for the tip.

    For Firefox 4 users: Click on the orange Firefox button > click Options > Select the content tab > uncheck enable Javascript.

    Though I'll probably end up continuing doing it the HTML method because I'll definitely forget to re-enable Javascript when I'm done.

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  5. It seems you don't use Opera, but if you did, it would make this (and a lot of other things) a lot easier.
    You can edit site preferences, and only disable javascript for one site, or even more specific, disable "Allow scripts to detect context menu events" for that site.

    One other thing: Do you plan to encode the other versions of S/mileage's Koi ni Booing Buu? Thanks anyway for all your other encodes!

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  6. I've tried all of the major browsers before, but I have quite a few Firefox add-ons that I can't live without, no matter how simple they may be. So, I always come crawling back to Firefox~

    Yep, the single V just came out recently so I'll get to it soon.

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  7. I'm an Opera girl myself but at the moment I filter between Opera, IE, and Google Chrome since the current series of Opera wigs out on me every once in a while.

    Anyway, Google Chrome would have help with this too as it has options when you hover your mouse over a picture. There's a zoom magnifying glass, an option to save the photo as your desktop background, the classic save button, and sometimes an option to view original photo which makes the photo full size for a moment.

    Example: http://i52.tinypic.com/157dl5f.png

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  8. Weird, it doesn't do that for me. Maybe you have a Chrome extension or add-on installed?

    Also, changed the title of this post to reflect that this method is for Firefox.

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  9. I had to do some digging as none of my extensions are image-only, but it is an extension.

    Chrome Toolbox:
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fjccknnhdnkbanjilpjddjhmkghmachn

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  10. haha really wow it dident know that i was so wodnering how to haha thanks

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  11. @Hidders: Cool, thanks for the info.

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