Author Topic: Pictures?  (Read 1240 times)

Offline carebear715

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Pictures?
« on: January 18, 2008, 02:01:06 PM »
For some reason, I can't grab pics on public profiles. I've tried several...I'm using IE at work, but I have Firefox at home and it was doing the same thing. I can get comments/info etc...but not pictures. Any idea what's wrong? Probably operator error... :)

Offline melman

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Re: Pictures?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2008, 07:05:58 PM »
this probably has something to do with it:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/01/myspace

i bet they fixed the 'bug' that this site was using to scrape the pics &
the article doesn't mention it but i also bet pics are scraped here exploiting
the same bug involving the myspace slideshow.swf file
(am i right mr. hideinthesky??)

oh well at least the comment rss is a pretty cool tool(but will never ever work on private profiles)
until this site gets shutdown for violation myspace's terms of use that is......

Offline FB

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Re: Pictures?
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2008, 08:01:57 PM »
Yes, Myspace closed the hole. Well, I'll have to disable the feature until a workaround is found.

Offline carebear715

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Re: Pictures?
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2008, 10:26:10 AM »
Thanks snake, you're the best!

Offline ohsandy

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Re: Pictures?
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2008, 03:05:29 PM »
I hope the pictures feature will be something you can get up and running again...good luck!  :)

Offline FB

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Re: Pictures?
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2008, 05:53:12 AM »
There's a pictures script now available, but it will only show you a maximum of 20 pictures the user has.

Offline cb1291

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Re: Pictures?
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2008, 02:43:28 PM »
Will we ever be able to view a private profile's pics if they haven't marked their albums as private? This used to work before the issue..so just wondering.

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Re: Pictures?
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2008, 04:11:13 PM »
There's a good chance that it won't happen. Myspace changed their site so that the pictures can't be viewed using the method the script used to use.