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Bulk Image Downloader Version History Print E-mail

Previous versions are available for download here.

 

What's new in v1.37? 

  • All BID settings now stored in AppData folder (allows BID to be run as non Administrator user)
  • Firefox 3 cookies now read correctly. This fixes some cookie authentication problems when using Firefox 3.
  • added support for cocopic, imagehosting.gr, imageflea
  • flickr update: 'buddy' icons downloaded instead of pics on some pages (fixed)
  • support for imagefoco, hotlinkimage updated
  • Updated to support latest imagefap changes (imagefap 'blank' image download problem fixed)
  • Very long folder names would cause save problems. Page Title is now truncated to prevent this problem.
  • Clicking on 'explorer' button now opens up the 'sub folder' you're busy downloading (if any), otherwise it opens the main download folder.
  • Vertical scrollbar behaviour improved
  • Image number displayed on image list
  • failed downloads retried immediately (no cycling of 'will retry')
  • Some images were prevented from being saved due to invalid characters in filename (fixed)
  • Improved image detection heuristics

 

What's new in v1.36? 

  • New BOSNIAN translation (thanks to Damir Blazevic)
  • Opera 9.5 compatibility update
  • support for bayimg.com albums added
  • support for webshots full sized image download
  • flickr update (some medium sized images were downloaded instead of largest/original)
  • ImageBeaver update (multi page gallery pages loaded, gallery title extracted)
  • improved redirect handling
  • support for smugmug.com galleries
    NB: This only works when gallery set to "All thumbs" style and BID is launched from Internet Explorer right click context menu. This does not work with Firefox/Opera yet. Set preferred image size to be downloaded as follows:
    - Click on the sumgmug thumbnail. After the image appears click on the 'Your preferred size' link underneath the image to select 'original' (or other)
    - Return to the thumbnail view by clicking on the gallery title.
    - Now launch BID by right clicking on the page and selecting 'Open current page with Bulk Image Downloader'.
  • BID screen position would change after using the Queue Manager
  • Keyboard shortcuts added to IE/Opera integration (English & German versions)
         Shift+F10 or Right Click, then press M = Open Current Page with BID
         Shift+F10 or Right Click, then press Q = Enqueue Current Page with BID
         Shift+F10 or Right Click, then press L = Open link target with BID
         Shift+F10 or Right Click, then press G = Enqueue link target with BID
         (letters were picked that worked on both IE and Opera)
  • FireFox extension updated - fixed some FireFox 3 conflicts with other context menu items. Added access key shortcuts as below:
         Shift+F10 or Right Click, then press D = Open Current Page with BID
         Shift+F10 or Right Click, then press Q = Enqueue Current Page with BID
         Shift+F10 or Right Click, then press I = Open link target with BID
         Shift+F10 or Right Click, then press N = Enqueue link target with BID

What's new in v1.35? 

  • New Slovak translation (thanks to danield5400)
  • New Catalan translation (thanks to nar6)
  • Now supports Yahoo groups photos - downloads large size pics from multiple page galleries
  • flickr support updated
  • shareapic now loads full sized ("zoomed") images
  • some image names had spaces removed incorrectly
  • invalid 'next page' links were being identified on some pages.
  • some imagefap galleries were returning too many images due to frames being loaded incorrectly
  • improved referer handling
  • improved javascript parsing
  • Shortcut keys for all controls added (hover mouse over control to view shortcut key)
  • A rare problem with registration process fixed

What's new in v1.34? 

  • New Lithuanian translation (thanks to Rytis Kurauskas)
  • New Estonian translation (thanks to Tarvo)
  • New Danish translation (thanks to Johan)
  • support for imagefoco
  • Redirect links are no longer followed if it's possible to determine the full size image link from the thumbnail address (e.g. images hosted by imagevenue or imagefap). Some redirection sites (such as usercash) now block IP addresses that hit their servers too many times in a certain time period. This change will help prevent your IP from being blocked as BID will have fewer lookups to perform. This behaviour can be changed via "Configuration"-> "Advanced Configuration"->"Redirect Links"-> "Don't follow redirect links..."
  • multi select issues corrected. To select a range click on the first item, then scroll to the last item, hold shift and click on the last item.
  • Queue manager will no longer cause current application to lose focus when starting a new download job.
  • Queue manager summary was not being updated correctly.
  • Queue manager 'Add File(s) to Queue' button was incorrectly disabled
  • "bidiecom.dll" in use problem on update corrected.
  • fixed thumbnail to image conversion issues (urlgalleries.net now works using this new method)
  • latest imagefap gallery changes supported
  • imageshack.us galleries now detected and downloaded correctly
  • BID was not always downloading the 'original' size from flickr - fixed
  • BID was not picking up all the images in very large imagefap galleries - fixed
  • BID will now automatically cancel the download if disk space is very low (< 100MB free)
  • When using the Queue Manager BID would sometimes display the error "Cancel download before scanning a new URL" - fixed
  • Disabling the Queue in the Queue Manager would cancel the current queued job - fixed.
  • Fixed some problems with Queued/Retry files

What's new in v1.33? 

  • new Dutch translation - thanks to Biebboek
  • new Indonesian translation - thanks to Noering
  • support for pichost.ru
  • flickr support updated
  • imageshack works again and returns original sized image
  • dependancy on embedded internet explorer removed - should stop "random" access violations after heavy downloading
  • Queue Manager was not saving settings correctly when closing
  • improved redirect handling

 What's new in v1.32? 

  • Handles latest imagefap changes that prevented multi page galleries from being downloaded.

What's new in v1.31? 

  • Chinese (traditional) translation - thanks to UMA
  • Improved redirect and frame handling.
  • Random exceptions on exit caused by embedded IE instance fixed

What's new in v1.30? 

  • French translation - thanks to rock_fort
  • Finnish translation - thanks to Erno Aalto
  • some changes to fix crashing on auto startup...
  • redirection problems introduced in 1.28 fixed
  • support for i1.to added
     

What's new in v1.29? 

  • New Portugueuse (European) translation - thanks to Diogo Conceição
  • New Chinese (Simpliflied) translation - thanks to Elix Diamond
  • Supports latest imagefap changes which caused thumbnails to be downloaded instead of full sized images
  • Flickr gallery support updated - now downloads original sized images if available
  • Support for Storm Factory image host added (now downloads full sized image)
  • Gallery detection heuristics updated

 

What's new in v1.28? 

  • Ukranian translation (thanks to Andrij Sosna)
  • futaba/wakaba boards (such as used on 4chan.org) now scanned for multiple pages
  • full support for Coppermine galleries (now loads full sized images, multi page)
  • support for hotlinkimage added
  • Full support for sites using cookies to validate users (such as imagecrack)
    NB: BID must be launched via browser right-click menu for cookie information to be retrieved correctly. Works 100% on IE, FireFox (using extension 1.28). Unfortunately for Opera users this may not work for some sites due to some cookie information not being available via the integration interface.
  • support for imagecrack added
  • Support for png files
  • Installation now prompts user for language instead of using Windows system locale.
  • animated gifs will now animate when viewed
  • frame loading caused problems with some multipage galleries such as imagereverb, fixed.
  • images in some html table structures were not detected correctly, fixed.
  • very long page titles would cause an error when saving files, fixed
  • No more confirmation message when "adding to queue". Queue manager will now display a desktop alert to indicate a URL has been queued.
  • less flicker when thumbnail preview active
  • BID menu items on IE right click context menu might not appear on some PCs, fixed.
  • BID Firefox extension (1.28) updated to support FireFox 3, multiple language support based on FireFox locale.

What's new in v1.27? 

  • NEW Turkish translation (thanks to Ali Emre Hortacsu)
  • NEW Advanced Configuration options:
    - Ignore links list: Define links that should be ignored. Use when BID finds links that are not links to full sized image pages.
    - Include links list: Define links that should not be ignored. Use if BID does not identify a full sized image page link correctly.
    - Redirect links list: Define links that are redirects to be resolved. Use if you come across a new site that does redirections, such as imagecash.
    (All links are matched using "regular expressions")
    - Change "queue", "retry" and "log" folders.
  • Right click menu options to copy thumbnail and image URLs to clipboard. (Useful when updating the Ignore list)
  • Fixed problems with some Page Title folder names
  • BID Queue manager would wrap long URLs incorrectly

 

What's new in v1.26? 

  • Possible hang when processing pages containing unicode characters fixed
  • Improved image detection logic

 

What's new in v1.25? 

  • New Swedish translation (thanks to Kevin Freetime)
  • New Portuguese (Brazil) translation (thanks to BrunoTK)
  • New Italian translation (thanks to Moreno Bertazzo)
  • New Serbian translation (thanks to Tiodor Radonjic)
  • Support for flickr added (can download entire multipage flickr photo galleries and sets, uses image title as filename)
  • Support for imagewaste added
  • Page Title may now be edited (when saving to page title subfolder). Invalid characters ('<', '>', '*', '?', ':', '\', '/' ) will be replaced with an underscore (_) when creating the folder - hover mouse over page title to display the adjusted folder name that will be used when saving.
  • Queue Manager now allows for multiple URLs to be added to the list at once.
  • Queue Manager now allows for queued items to be sorted or moved to the top or bottom of the queue (new right click menu options)
  • retry batches no longer disabled if logging disabled
  • images now only cached while BID is active, and automatically deleted when BID is closed.
  • frame loading improved
  • various interface tweaks and improvements

 

What's new in v1.24? 

  • New SPANISH translation (thanks to victorg72™® =P)
  • improved redirect handling
  • fixed up Opera right click menu text for some translations
  • cache auto cleanup issues corrected

 

What's new in v1.23? 

  • Fixed up missing copy/paste right click menu on URL
  • new option to control filename generation (autodetect, always, never)
  • png thumbnails now displayed correctly
  • Some missing translations strings corrected
  • New GERMAN translation available (thanks to Thomas Staszak)
  • New POLISH translation available (thanks to Piotr Dygdalowicz)
  • possible exception on startup fixed 

 

What's new in v1.22? 

  • Support for multiple languages! If you can translate BID into another language we'll give you a free registration code. If you're interested, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and we'll send you all the info you'll need to do the translation. We'll then make your translations available to other BID users.
  • New function to export images into code for copying and pasting into forums or html pages. If you've signed up to our affiliate program this is a very good way to generate referrals.
  • Possible image ordering problems when downloading multipage imagefap galleries corrected. Multiple imagefap page loading is now quicker too!
  • boxtheclown works again
  • support for 10pix
  • support for infostore.org
  • can now handle linkbucks/urlcash redirect links
  • can now set max forum pages to load (config)

 

What's new in v1.21? 

  • fixed possible invalid image detection logic which would prevent certain images from being downloaded.
  • imagevenue filename cleanup improved
  • added explore button for easy access to selected download folder
  • now works on 64-bit Vista

 

What's new in v1.20? 

  • fixed possible misidentification of images
  • new option to disable multiple web forum page load
  • unique filename generation problems when loading from a file fixed
  • link analysis greatly sped up
  • some sites that stopped working with 1.18 working again
  • settings in the queue manager were not saved correctly

 

 What's new in v1.19? 

  • imagereverb working again
  • fixed possible redirection errors with certain sites (such as blogspot.com)

 

What's new in v1.18? 

  • added support for photobucket.com, boxtheclown, imagebam
  • images will be saved with original names when available (such as imagebam)
  • remaining and error image downloads batches now saved to a "retry" folder. This makes it easier to retry problem batches.
  • Queue Manager updated to display and simplify the resubmission of these retry batches
  • auto loading of multiple forum pages
  • Updated Firefox extension (1.18) - now supports Shortcut keys, solved possible BID launch problems.

 

What's new in v1.17? 

  • cache is now in hours instead of days (save disk space)
  • redirection of source url now handled correctly
  • IE integration now disables cookie sending by default - some users reported problems with the new 1.16 IE integration which sent cookie info. Enable on the option tab if required.
  • Firefox integration - 1.16 and 1.06 extensions now included in installation. v1.16 sends cookie info which may cause problems on some PCs. If FF integration fails with 1.16 please install 1.06
  • Possible startup failure introduced in 1.16 fixed.

 

What's new in v1.16? 

  • New batch logging feature. BID batch results now logged to a file. View, delete and disable from the BID config tab
  • Summarised batch results now appear in the Queue Manager (See Log tab)
  • Greatly improved cookie handling. Forums and other web sites that authenticate with cookies should work correctly now. Note that FireFox users should install the new 1.16 BID FireFox extension to support this.
  • Thumbnail sizing option added for small, medium and large thumbnails
  • Supports pages with frames (controlled via new load frames option)
  • Option to toggle BID closure after adding to queue
  • Shareavenue files now saved with original filenames (note that the image list will still display the 'garbage' filename, but it will be saved with the correct filename)
  • imagevenue filename clean up updated
  • Support for Gallery2 galleries (will download full sized images from multiple pages)
  • Support added for supload.com, blogphotohost, friendster, skins.be

 

What's new in v1.15? 

  • Fixed new keepmyfile download issues
  • Fixed new imagefap multi page gallery download issues
  • support for sharedlinks.net added
  • support for largeimagehost added
  • Fixed incorrect "base href" handling
  • Cache/queue folder moved out of user's document folder and into appdata folder

 

What's new in v1.14? 

  • Support for vbulletin forum image attachments
  • Fixed some problems with a few imagevenue images

 

What's new in v1.13? 

  • Fixed some new issues with imagefap downloads

 

What's new in v1.12? 

  • Supports sites requiring authentication (usernames/passwords)
  • New download history (keeps last 10 folders saved to)
  • Unique folder names option
  • Supports new imagevenue changes
  • ImageFap now works with IE6 (had to have IE7 previously)
  • Cache handling improved

 

What's new in v1.11? 

  • Some valid images were incorrectly flagged as invalid (fixed)
  • New retry option for page loading
  • New option to cancel page loading
  • Queue manager now allows system to shutdown
  • Queue manager queue may have stopped processing in some cases
  • Page titles with trailing dots no longer cause an error
  • Various other user interface tweaks

 

What's new in v1.10? 

  • Download progress display
  • Downloads resumed where possible
  • Thumbnails/Images cached for speedy access
  • Page Title as Folder Name option now generates unique folder names
  • Saving/loading batch now saves/loads download folder info
  • BID's "Add to Queue" button now saves the current batch and sends the saved file to the queue manager instead of just the URL. This means that the batch will be downloaded with all your saved settings instead of using the queue manager defaults.
  • Various small bug fixes and enhancements
  • Error reports disabled

 

What's new in v1.09? 

  • Improved Vista compatibility (note that UAC must be disabled on Vista for BID / IE integration to work)
  • Select/Deselect images on the list using regular expressions
  • Improved thumbnail/image loading
  • Right click on thumbnail/image preview to save
  • Occasional crashes on exit while downloading fixed
  • Support for new hosts including uploadem
  • Improved ImageFap support

 

What's new in v1.08? 

  • ImageFap works again!
  • shareapic duplicate image problem fixed

What's new in v1.07? 

  • Now runs correctly under Vista (note that BID IE integration will not work with Vista, use FireFox or Opera instead)
  • ImageFap works again
  • paintedover supported

 

What's new in v1.06? 

  • New Queue manager - just right click in your browser and "Enqueue" the page/link
  • Web page titles can be used as sub folders
  • fapomatic supported
  • ImageFap problems where image file extensions differ to thumbnail fixed

 

What's new in v1.05? 

  • Support for ShareAvenue, imagedollar, megaupload, imageshack
  • Improved image locator AI
  • Can now download multi page imagereverb galleries
  • Support for websites that authenticate using cookies (such as forums that require reqistration to view posts)
  • More efficient handling of large batches

 

What's new in v1.04? 

  • Integrated with Internet Explorer (right click context menu)
  • Integrated with Opera (right click context menu)
  • Integrated with Firefox via FireFox extension (right click context menu)
  • improved unsupported host image findingSupport for normal (direct link to image) galleries

What's new in v1.03? 

  • Support for normal (direct link to image) galleries
  • imagereverb fixed
  • imagecash/usercash redirects automatically resolved
  • xxxdump, keepmyfile, imagebeaver, magicteapot, shareloading added
  • can attempt to download from unsupported hosts (if enabled)

 

What's new in v1.02? 

  • Cancelling a batch could invalidate image counts
  • Saving/Loading batches could write incorrect image count

What's new in v1.01? 

  • Added support for jpghosting.com
  • Count of images downloaded, skipped, errors etc would go wrong at times
  • Added option to only allow auto closure if there were no errors
  • Can now specify how many times to retry a broken download
  • Improved cookie handling
  • Exceptions when trying to start more than 2 instances (unregistered version) fixed
  • Possibly truncated image files are no longer deleted automatically