List Generator

(Old, 2004)

This is a list generator that I wrote to solve a problem I had with downloading images.
You see, one of the sites was hosting old “Andrew Loomis” books in the shape of images, one page per image (The books are over 50 years old, out of print as of 2004 and there is NO WAY a book like “Successful Figure Drawing” with all the nude figures in it will be available in Saudi Arabia, or even ENTER the country!). 

Anyway, each book has the images/pages as 001.jpg, 002.jpg up to 280.jpg. If I were to click every link myself, it would have taken a very long time and I might miss a few pages. So, thinking of a way to download all these images (I didn’t find any good free site grabbers at that time), I found out that Download Accelerator had a feature to upload links from .txt files. What I did was; I code a small program that can generate the list of links in a txt file if I give it the link, the lower limit and the upper limit. Because I had no intention of releasing this program, I just kept the whole thing hard-coded in the file and I compile when ever I need a new list. There is also the option to create the list backward….. I don’t recall why did I add such an option, but anyway, it works fine. I just upload the txt file to the downloader and leave it over night. 

You can see the code HERE. 

You can download the code HERE.

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