Let's reverse engineer stock image URLs

SEO Supreme

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• Oct 27, 2017

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Hey gang,

I'm seeing several 'get stock images for free' threads but they're not working any more.
If someone were kind enough to upload a legitimately paid image URL for me (or the BHW community) to analyze, we might be able to reverse engineer it and find a way to download them for free.

Anyone have a link?

 

Zanskar

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• Oct 28, 2017

• #2

Check this out - https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/how-i-get-images-from-shutterstock-for-free.981226/

 

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theRevolt

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• Oct 29, 2017

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Getting the actual images is not really the problem here. Keep in mind that without an actual invoice or other proof you aquired the image legitimately, they can still come after you (how likely etc. It's obviously a separate discussion)

 

SEO Supreme

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Hey Zanskar, thanks for the feedback! I've tried this method before and it works but can't get a hi-res version out of it. Were you able to download the full image?

Thanks,

 

Wilson Grant Fisk

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• #5

Use TinEye or Google Reverse Image search, then search for all sizes of the image, usually works.
https://www.tineye.com/

 

SEO Supreme

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True, that's a good method. But that's not what we're trying to crack here. Thanks for the feedback, though!

 

blogzandstuff

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• Oct 30, 2017

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All this hassle just to get a free image, so many sites like pixabay out there. Think of how much your time is worth, cheaper to use free sites or just pay and support the original owner

 

Jiung

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SEO Supreme said:

True, that's a good method. But that's not what we're trying to crack here. Thanks for the feedback, though!

Click to expand...

When not? Isn't that what you're looking to do?

 

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Deleted member 923340

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• Oct 30, 2017

• #9

Not that easy pal.
This was a legitimate download URL.
http://download.shutterstock.com/ga...MlhJOVM4VFo2YXciXQ/shutterstock_434219704.jpg

now it is not working. They are smarter than you think.

if u r looking for a pattern like this..

download.shutterstock.com/{image-id)-{image-size}.jpg

not going to happen.

 

frzs90

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Deleted member 923340 is right, of course a lot of people already tried this, so they implemented non-reversable methods.
It's not like there is a big folder where you can get each image by ID and pasting _highres_wihout_watermark.jpg at the end.
When they create a download link for you, it will most likely contain a hash which is valid only for your logged in account, maybe actual session id, and maybe also time limited.

 

SEO Supreme

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That link results in a 410 'Gone' response code. They're definitely generating them dynamically. Thanks for the input!