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

Took me an hour of tinkering till I found an easy solution:

1. Go to the Amazon page of the item you want an image for.
2. Press ctrl U
3. Press ctrl F
4. Search "hiRes"
5. Copy and paste the links that come up next to "hiRes": until you find the image you're looking for. It should only take a few attempts to find the image you want.
6. On this new page, right click on the image and click "Save Image As". The pic is now yours!

Example:

1. Amazon item page: http://www.amazon.com/Carhartt-Thermal-Active-Jacket-J131/dp/B002G9U8A0/ref=cts_ap_1_fbt
2. Pressed ctrl U
3. Pressed ctrl F
4. Searched "hiRes"
5. The third "hiRes" down, I found a link like this: "hiRes":"http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81OjsM9ITDL.UL1500.jpg". Copied and pasted the link into my browser (sans quotation marks).
6. Saved image onto my computer!

Answer 2

There is an easier way. Right click (ctrl+click on mac) on the smaller image, the context-menu opens up along with the bigger zoomed image. With the context-menu still open, right-click on the zoomed image (at this point the zoom image disappears, don't worry we don't need it) and select "Save Image As" and save the image.

The trick here is, the zoomed image disappears only when there is some activity on the web page like mouse movement or mouse clicks. When context menu is open web page contents don't change even if you move the mouse. They are not captured by the web page as long as the context-menu is still open. If you right click on the zoomed image while the context-menu is still open, the zoomed image disappears but the image reference is already captured by the context-menu of second right click.

Answer 3

This is way off topic for SO, but since I had the same question, here's an answer for how to grab them easily.

There's a Firefox app for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/azid-amazon-zoom-image-downloa/