Image grabber is working wonderfully on my site and I am very grateful for it!

I have found that 99 times out of 100 when Imagegrabber picks up the wrong image for a news item it is the same one again and again for each feed. For example, performing an image grab on a discover magazine feed brings down the discover magazine logo every time for each item. About 1/3 articles from discover also include an image I want to keep, so I keep image grabber on for this feed. But if I could just list this one bad logo image in an exclusion list, (and several others of my 60 feeds do this same thing) I would have a 99.9% solution, with only the very rare unwanted image getting in. Could you add a feature to create a list of image URLs to ignore?

thanks!

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publicmind commented
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Thanks for the suggestion. I am working on the feature where user can select the desired portion of the web-page from which he wants the feed to extract the images by specifying HTML tags. Just looking how to integrate it smoothly, so that users don't get perplexed.

Also, I don't think creating an exclusion list for each feed will be feasible. As, most of the undesired images that Imagegrabber grabs are the advertisement images which usually have dynamic addresses. So, that can unknowingly create a long list of excluded images and can affect the performance.

Regards,

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publicmind commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)