scrape image from url of page

Hi, @lucytech.

This is the simplest way:
1) Right click on the image and copy the image address;
2) Open the post editor and paste the URL on Featured Image from URL field.
3) Update/Publish the post.

I need users to be able to create a post for a product of their choice. eg a product from amazon. I want them to be able to take the url of the web page and then set the main image as the featured image for their post. It will be too complicated for a user to get the url of the image.
Is there a way to adapt the plugin?

The problem is that a web page can have hundreds of images. And many times there is no a “main” image. And when there is a “main” image, there is no a web pattern in the code that says that an image is the “main” image.

Is there a way to add code so it would work for at least some sites like amazon and aliexpress?

I will analyse. Give some links, please.

https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Mockingbird-Blu-ray-Gregory-Peck/dp/B07G1ZHWFS
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32917196144.html?spm=a2g01.12597576.p99adbb.12.1f4b6501UZ9FXB&gps-id=6273002&scm=1007.16233.119941.0&scm_id=1007.16233.119941.0&scm-url=1007.16233.119941.0&pvid=5dde49f5-c83c-40dc-866f-8a15bf3ef3ad
https://www.zap.co.il/model.aspx?modelid=1009192

Thanks

Hi,

aliexpress.com and zap.co.il have social tags, so it’s easier to get the main external image. Howerver, for amazon.com, it’s different. It has 37 images there. The plugin would need to read all the code and and look for a pattern. It would be a very slow process and the users would have a very bad experience.

So for now, I will say that’s not possible, but the idea is good, once some users have difficult to get the image address.

I have some ideas for the plugin and I think that in some months, integrating the plugin with an external service, it would be possible. I’ll keep this ticket open and I inform you if I have news.

Ok, great.
I would need it to be a field that can be added on the front-end. Either in a template file or a front-end form.

Please check the documentation of the frontend plugins that we have talked about (or contact those authors) and let me know if they allow you to insert an input field there, saving the value in a custom field. It should solve your issue.