iMeMiner - Help


Last Updated: 20021218

What is a gallery? A museum?
It is, of course, easiest to explain in art terms, but the concept may be applied to all media. A gallery is a group of images that are all linked to from one page. This page usually has thumbnails to help you select which image you wish to view at full size. A museum contains links to many galleries. These links may or may not have thumbnails. Often the links on museum pages are just text descriptions of the gallery.

Again, this concept does not necessarily apply exclusively to art. For music, the gallery may be the works of one musician, and a museum may be links to many different musicians. Or a gallery could be one album of that musician and a museum could be links to every album of that musician.

Downloading a gallery
First, make sure that you are connected to the internet. Second, set the page type to "Gallery" and not "Museum". Now, In the text field labeled "Address", enter the URL of the gallery. After you have completed that step, hit either the "return" key, "enter" key, or the "go!" button.

Downloading a museum
First, make sure that you are connected to the internet. Second, set the page type to "Museum" and not "Gallery". Now, In the text field labeled "Address", enter the URL of the museum. After you have completed that step, hit either the "return" key, "enter" key, or the "Extract" button.

At this point, "downloading page..." should be displayed in the lower left part of the iMeMiner window. The lower left will then display "extracting links..." Once the galleries have been extracted from the museum page they will be displayed in the left pane. Galleries which have been previously downloaded will be greyed out. Even though these galleries are grey, you may still download them. Initially none of the galleries will be selected. You must select which galleries you wish to download by clicking on their check box. When you have selected every gallery you wish to download, click on the "go!" button.

Bookmarks Menu


What is innovative about the iMeMiner bookmarks is that it sorts them by which you have most recently visited. The bookmark which you have just visited will be on the top of the list.

View Menu

Gallery Menu

Control Menu

Selecting the media type to download
iMeMiner is built to download any type of media from the internet. To select which type of media you would like to download, open the preferences panel by selecting "Preferences..." from the File menu. When the panel is opened you may select general media categories ("images", "video", etc.) or you may enter your own file suffixes.

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Known bugs


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