How to get a full res image from an amazon zoom window

Question

I started this just to use as an internal reference for a project, and now I\'m kind of obsessed with it - Amazon uses a zoom plugin to slice up a large image into pieces, and e

Answer 1

Some image downloader in Chrome extension able to 'sniff' to download the full res image. ;)

Answer 2

with a bit of googling, firebug work and reading some other posts this is what ive figured

one of the parts of the big image u mentioned is

http://z2-ec2.images-amazon.com/R/1/a=0714859583+d=_SCR(2,3,3)_+o=01+s=RMTILE+va=MAIN+ve=196021930+e=.jpg

and the original big image is

http://z2-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0714859583.01._SX_SCRMZZZZZZZ_V196021930_.jpg

so to follow this to find out for all images the algorithm u have to follow is

• first part - http://z2-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/
• then the part following a=
• delete everything following d=
• followed by '.' then value following o= then '.'
• followed by _SX_SCRMZZZZZZZ_V
• followed by the part following ve= followed by _.jpg

does that make any sense???

Answer 3

This is the method that I am currently using. This is effective but slow, since each image needs to be tackled individually. But, it is also fast, since almost every step can be completed with keyboard shortcuts.

I came on Stack exchange to learn even faster approach for Bulk photos, but found that the method I am currently using may be as faster as some of the other methods already shared.

1. Open the required Amazon product page in Chrome, whose High resolution images you wish to download.
2. Press CTRL + SHIFT + I to open the Chrome Dev Tool.
3. Go to "Network" Tab (A).
4. As some Images may have already been Cached by browser, Make sure to check "Disable Cache" (B) to force browser downloading all the images of this page on the next refresh.
5. Click "img" (C) attribute.
6. Hit F5 to refresh the page. Now you should see the list of images expanding as page starts refreshing.
7. On the Webpage, which is on the left of the Chrome Dev Tools section, make sure to click on each thumbnail images of the product and hover a bit on the bigger image so that a magnifier pops up. As you are doing this, you will notice that the List of images is further populating. You have to this for all the thumbnail images.
8. Now, click on "Size" tab (D) to sort the listing in descending order by size.
9. Single click on top most row of this list to popup an image preview.
10. Pressing Menu key adjacent to Right CTRL button shall give an Option menu.
11. Press Down Arrow twice and hit Enter to open this image in new tab.
12. Press CTRL + S to open the Computer download folder and hit Enter to save it.
13. Press CTRL + W to close the tab.
14. Press Down Arrow to switch to next image, down the list. And repeat steps 10 to 13 till all the required images are downloaded.

Answer 4

• open firebug
• hover on image and when zoom apears, go to firebug window without hover any other object
• find the class="zoomWindow" on the bottom of html source

e.g.

div id="zoomWindow"

• copy the link of img src

e.g.

img id="detailImg" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81nDa%2Bg17vL._SL1500_.jpg" /

copy http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81nDa%2Bg17vL._SL1500_.jpg

• paste in new tab

thats it

Answer 5

There's a new and simpliest way to do this. If you have fetched the url of the normal/small image, like this

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z2sXctnLL.SX466.jpg

Just replace the SX466 with SL1500 to make it like this

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z2sXctnLL.SL1500.jpg

Answer 6

Amazon hi-res image cotains Merchant ID, it is complicated.
I made a bookmarklet to save Amazon Images.Please try it, and look image's URL. ttp://parasiteeve2.blog65.fc2.com/blog-entry-1017.html

Example,
Thriller(Amazon MP3) image,
B0013D6LEM(ASIN).01(country U.S.)-A17SFUTIVB227Z(Merchant ID).MAIN. ,
Marchant ID cannot be omitted.

Michael Jackson(Kindle Store) image,
B005WU9RNO(ASIN).01(country U.S.).MAIN. ,
Merchant ID is omittable.