How I use ScrapeBox to get a LOT of stock photos

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I don't know if people know about this but I'd thought I'd give back and share my method on how to get a ton of stock images. I've never seen this posted anywhere before. I'll be using my favorite tool ScrapeBox of course. It's real simple.

1. I usually just use 1 keyword, but you can use the keyword scraper for more words if you want. The keyword I'm going to use is "Dogs". So I put that in the keyword box.

2. I load up my "stock photos" footprint txt file which consists of these footprints:

inurl:istock -site:istock.com
inurl:shutterstock -site:shutterstock.com
inurl:bigstockphoto -site:bigstockphoto.com
inurl:jupiterimages -site:jupiterimages.com
inurl:dreamstime -site:dreamstime.com
inurl:fotolia -site:fotolia.com
inurl:canstockphoto -site:canstockphoto.com
inurl:inmagine -site:inmagine.com

If you don't know how to do that, you load it by pressing M that's in front of the harvester bar. So now I have this in my keyword box:

inurl:istock -site:istock.com Dogs
inurl:shutterstock -site:shutterstock.com Dogs
inurl:bigstockphoto -site:bigstockphoto.com Dogs
inurl:jupiterimages -site:jupiterimages.com Dogs
inurl:dreamstime -site:dreamstime.com Dogs
inurl:fotolia -site:fotolia.com Dogs
inurl:canstockphoto -site:canstockphoto.com Dogs
inurl:inmagine -site:inmagine.com Dogs

3. Open the Google Image Grabber addon and load keywords from the keyword list. Choose all your settings and let ScrapeBox do it's thing.

That's it!
 
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Nice share, I'm always looking for photo's. +rep
 
very cool trick. Thank you! This will save me a ton of time.
 
That's very cool! But I can only export the result as a txt file. When I open it with, say Wordpad, I get a bunch of urls that I have to open individually to see what the images are - and many of them do not match the keyword.

Is there a way to save just the images in a folder instead of exporting the entire url?

---- EDIT --- DUH - I just discovered the "download" button does this! I swear that button was not available before! Ok, problem solved!


jiggsaw said:
I don't know if people know about this but I'd thought I'd give back and share my method on how to get a ton of stock images. I've never seen this posted anywhere before. I'll be using my favorite tool ScrapeBox of course. It's real simple.

1. I usually just use 1 keyword, but you can use the keyword scraper for more words if you want. The keyword I'm going to use is "Dogs". So I put that in the keyword box.

2. I load up my "stock photos" footprint txt file which consists of these footprints:

inurl:istock -site:istock.com
inurl:shutterstock -site:shutterstock.com
inurl:bigstockphoto -site:bigstockphoto.com
inurl:jupiterimages -site:jupiterimages.com
inurl:dreamstime -site:dreamstime.com
inurl:fotolia -site:fotolia.com
inurl:canstockphoto -site:canstockphoto.com
inurl:inmagine -site:inmagine.com

If you don't know how to do that, you load it by pressing M that's in front of the harvester bar. So now I have this in my keyword box:

inurl:istock -site:istock.com Dogs
inurl:shutterstock -site:shutterstock.com Dogs
inurl:bigstockphoto -site:bigstockphoto.com Dogs
inurl:jupiterimages -site:jupiterimages.com Dogs
inurl:dreamstime -site:dreamstime.com Dogs
inurl:fotolia -site:fotolia.com Dogs
inurl:canstockphoto -site:canstockphoto.com Dogs
inurl:inmagine -site:inmagine.com Dogs

3. Open the Google Image Grabber addon and load keywords from the keyword list. Choose all your settings and let ScrapeBox do it's thing.

That's it!
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Excellent share. Worked perfectly on my first attempt. I even got photos i had purchased in the past. This is a gem.
 
This is awesome, what a creative way of using ScrapeBox. Thanks for sharing.
 
Wow... EPIC share. Props you to you brother.
 
santacruz said:
yeah, the photo is copyright? BTW thanks!
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No, go to G, that's an example of what you'd get from just the istock query. /images?q=inurl:istock+-site:istock.com+Dogs&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=620

Also, thanks OP, cool trick.
 
Great Idea! Anyone having problems with scrapbox image grabber skipping nearly all of the images? I can scrape 500 and get 25? WTH
 
very nice! that can be helpful in many ways :) it is secure to use stock photos in lets say an adsense blog?
 
jeremonster said:
Great Idea! Anyone having problems with scrapbox image grabber skipping nearly all of the images? I can scrape 500 and get 25? WTH
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My scrapebox is not getting the full keyword from the keyword list.

Sometimes when I have the keyword as "inurl:istock -site:istock.com new cars" it will only search for "inurl:istock -site:istock.com new"

When I have "inurl:inmagine -site:inmagine.com dogs" it searches for only "inurl:inmagine".


Is anyone else seeing this issue?
 
That is one hell of a method! So simple yet so smart.

Nice job! Thanks given!
 
what can i do with the images that sb scraped ? I have no idea ... can i bulk upload them any where
 
I just tried this and I got Error Writing on most of them. Maybe it's because I'm using public proxies? They were freshly added though.
 
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