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Two years of contributions: the mega thread (56K n

Published March 24, 2008
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No way in hell I could have done that manually, so I asked OrangyTang from gamedev.net his python script to collect all pictures posted in gamedev.net's journals, and adapted it for the contributions forum.

The result is a mega thread of 25 pages, each containing hundreds of thumbnails of pictures that have been posted in the contributions forum. That's around 12000 images !

All the pages directory can be seen here. Sorted by time, so the more recent pages are in the 20-30:
http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/Contribs/

Clicking on a thumbnail will lead to the thread it has been posted in.

The Python script used to produce those images is also in the above directory. I had to adapt it to parse phpbb forums, ignore unaccessible/deleted threads, ignore avatars/signatures/smileys, etc.. I also made it multi-threaded (20 threads yey!) so that it processes faster.
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coderx75
Ooh, a full directory of screenies! =D

There's no index.html so the entire directory shows, including the script. Shouldn't these be resized as well? The thumbnails seem to be full size.
March 24, 2008 04:56 PM
Ysaneya
Quote: Original post by coderx75
Ooh, a full directory of screenies! =D

There's no index.html so the entire directory shows, including the script. Shouldn't these be resized as well? The thumbnails seem to be full size.


All those thumbnails point to external sites. In order to make real thumbnails, I would have to copy, downscale and host the thumbnails on my own site. That's too much work for what it is.
March 24, 2008 05:00 PM
liqwiz
python <3
March 25, 2008 09:19 PM
acidwillburnyou
Looks awesome :D

For future reference, check out this cool gallery script. It generates a gallery with proper thumbnails for all images in a directory.
March 26, 2008 12:04 AM
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