Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Import External Images

This vBulletin 4 product imports external images in your posts from external servers or paths into a specific path, normally your forum's image folder.

Differently than the previous product Image Cache for vBulletin 3.x., it parses the posts at regular intervals for new images and replaces the external references in the background. Also, instead of using only a single folder, it creates folders for years and months, making it much easier to handle large quantities of images. The source and destination image URL's are stored into database, too, avoiding unnecessary duplicates.

It moves and optionally converts images from one place to another. It is a handy tool in order to keep your images local to your forums.

Version 1.0.4 is temporarily in BETA stage until the users have confirmed the newly requested features.
Version 1.0.5 is still in BETA stage. It adds a new bunch of additional features, one of which allows you to test your mathematical understanding ... and a few other to fine-tune CURL and socket timeouts, and resizing on the fly of too large images. If you don't know what these options do, please leave them at their default values.

[M4T VW]

Doesn't seem to be working with photobucket again? It just downloads a load of "no external hosting allowed" images.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by M4T VW

Doesn't seem to be working with photobucket again? It just downloads a load of "no external hosting allowed" images.

Yeah, they might keep an eye on it or eventually apply a firewall rule to keep people from downloading the images.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Yeah, they might keep an eye on it or eventually apply a firewall rule to keep people from downloading the images.

Maybe you better give up on them. I tried to get to the point where an image shows up, but no success.

It seems they have disabled public images and were "sold" to an unnamed third party which now made it an advertising hog. It's a pity how deep certain services may fall

[Kane@airrifle]

I did a PB import today for somebody and got 96/100 imported.

[unitedpunjab]

Is it possible to 'reverse' the ignore option ?
So that only the url specified can be cached.

I will try to toggle some true/false but it will be helpful if someone has already done this.

[Gizmo99]

just found that if you add ~original after the .jpg the image of the photobucket [IMG] link and the image appears

can or will this script do this ?

Giz

[The_Hawk]

The fix still appears to be working for me with images imported as late as yesterday without issues. I do note that I have *very* few images coming through from photobucket as people have moved onto other things. It could be that those last couple are paid accounts and that's why it's working... For one main user it probably is, for the other couple it's unlikely.

Again, brilliant little fix that the community is loving.

[VCCN]

Very good plugin, works exellent, thank you
One question; is it possible to have the plugin to fetche photobucket-links only?

[VCCN]

Update: seems like PB has blocked this now. Alot of PB-pictures is not changed according to log, when i check the actual post, and add ~ behind the .jpg the picture works fine :-(

Edit: checked the table and many PB-pictures is downloaded, and some is not. hmm

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by VCCN

Very good plugin, works exellent, thank you
One question; is it possible to have the plugin to fetche photobucket-links only?

No. The idea is to download all images.