[olpc-community-support] How do I save an image from the web

[Paul Russell]

I just tried opera. Wow! It's a great browser on the xo.

It has tabbed browsing, bookmarks with optional shortcut keys and solves the
image save and upload problem by saving images to /home/olpc. Files are
saved with their original file name and when I upload to blogger, opera
looks in /home/olpc so it just works.

It does appear that the opera rendering engine doesn't like (read 'ignores')
the css tag style="float:left" but other than that its great!

Thanks for suggesting opera!
Paul


On 12/21/07, Paul Russell <russelldad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Both Opera and wget are great ideas. I'll give both a try now. Thanks!
>
> Is there an easy way to get an image URL out of a web page?
>
> If I were to use wget I'd need to know the URL for the image. Often images
> are in a webpage and I'd do a view image or save as in firefox. The only way
> I can figure out how to get a URL for an image using browers is to CTRL-u
> and sift through the source.
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2007 4:24 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> > An alternate approach is to use the tool 'wget' to download your image
> > in the terminal, e.g.:
> >
> >  wget -O my.jpg http://some.where/some.jpg
> >  wget http://some.other/file.jpg
> >
> > would produce 'my.jpg' and 'file.jpg' in the current directory.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:31:36PM +0000, phigan wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > russelldad at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Is there a way to save an image from a web page onto the XO hard
> > drive, and then get the path to that image so that I can upload it?
> > >
> > >
> > > You may be able to enter the direct URL of the image you want to save,
> > but I have not attempted this with the Browse activity.
> > >
> > > Opera ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Opera) is what I've been using, and
> > it seems to work pretty well! You have to install it and run it in Terminal.
> > Things you need to know:
> > >
> > > Opera-activity on that page doesn't work right now.
> > > When you download something in the Browse activity, it goes into the
> > Journal and in /home/olpc/.sugar/default/datastore/store as a funky
> > filename. Match up the date and filesize, 'cp' it to your /home/olpc
> > directory, and then erase it from the Journal.
> > > To install an rpm, do this as root: rpm -vi <filename>
> > > To run opera after it's installed: opera &
> > >
> > > It gives you a right-click menu and will let you save images.
> > >
> > > - Joe
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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