The Best Gallery Scraper
 

Hi, Was wondering what the best Gallery Scraper was? So I can market some of my sponsor's galleries on TGP's.
Thanks In Advance

Arylia is absolutely fantastic for that task, but it's not available for php 7.x (maybe Hinc wants to tackle that one next? I'm sure MANY would appreciate it).

CyberSEO has Gallery Magic that can import fhg dumps if you are using a a Wordpress based site.

Cool..Thanks..its regular html not wordpress..

I *loved* GalleryDaemon | The Leading Gallery Template Generator Script

For me, it worked much better than Arylia.

But sadly, neither have worked for me for a long time.

Arylia is not GPL so he or anyone else would need a permission from author first.

The man to speak to about getting it converted to php 7.x is Arock. I converted it from 5.2.x to work with 5.3 through 5.6x, and Arock was aware. But I don't have the time, nor the skillset really, to get it working under 7... though a LOT of people have asked me about it.

For me, Arylia was so damn functional in so many ways. I've yet to see any script that handled galleries so fluently as Arylia, even after all these years. That said, it certainly had it's limitations, but it still works well -- I still use it regularly.

ETA: To be fair, I never spent any real amount of time with GalleryDaemon so it may very well be better. But you know how it is, you get so used to the logic and operation of one script that you find 1001 uses for it and it becomes better than anything else :)

Yes arylia was best , tho it had one weakness - it would get "confused" if there would be multiple image size in gallery, so to scrap some galleries i had to build custom scrapper.

Hmm, I never encountered that issue except the one before the last official version, version 3.0 I think.

For me, the biggest weakness was/is the batching. You are limited to the predefined fields. There is no way to batch with any other fields you added via templates or even to the admin defined ones (unless you hack / edit the batch process routines).

You are limited to these: url, title, description

If your import has a url, title, description, model name, thumbURl, and tags, you basically have to batch and then go back and either manually edit each gallery, or, what I do, is dump the galleries database to get the id's, and then create a a database import file with the extra fields matching the gallery ID. It's a pain in the ass to to do detailed batching. Beyond that, I think it's great.

That said, would love to see someone create a script around Arylia as the foundation it has is pretty damn nice.

It has been so long ago that I can't recall why I had that preference. I reached out to the guy behind it years ago to see what it would take to get him to upgrade it, but never got a response.

I totally agree that Arylia may have been fantastic, and I was just used to what I was used to. ;)

Either way, it would be great if one of them worked again!