So i’ve been playing with DailyMugShot.com for the past couple of months. DailyMugShot is just that – you take 1 picture every day of your mug. Well I wanted all my mugshots and there wasn’t a direct way of downloading them from the site. They have an RSS feed for your shots, but it only shows the current picture.
They do have a little flash based badge that you can post to your site.
So with some hunting around in the firebug output I found where the little flash piece calls a service for the sequence of images. The dataservice is simple XML (Yay!), and I like ActionScript 3 and XML. So, I wrote an AIR app that downloads all my mugshot images. It is really basic and urls and final file locations are all hard-coded, but it was a fun 45 minutes and worked like a charm and I have all my past mug shots.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Update: If you’d like to play with dailymugshot.com I’ve compiled an AIR Application that will download all the images for a given user ID (you can get the userID from the slide show page URL)
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download: \"DailyMugGetter\" AIR Application (980.95KB) added: 15/03/2010 clicks: 462 description: Allows you to download all images for a UserID from http://www.dailymugshot.com |
Such ham(s) for the camera!!
is it still working? I tried to download my photos with your application but I got “error fetching data”
Yep it still works. You need to use your user id not your username. To get your user log into your account and then go to “My Mug Show”, then click the “See Your MugShow” link at the top of the page. The URL will have your user id at the end.