Few days back I was struggling to download the images which were uploaded to picasaweb by my friends as I wanted all the images to be uploaded to a single gallery. I found a very useful post regarding the Picasa capability of downloading the web gallery at once. But I found that this option is not working in Linux. So, I go to find an alternative. Digging more into this really did a trick and I found that I can make use of my favorite browser to do this work for me.
This is what I had to do to download the images from picasaweb. First I installed Firefox greasemonkey and DownThemAll plugins for Firefox and then installed a Greasemonkey user script restart my browser.
Once this is done, GreaseMonkey adds a “Init download links” button on your picasaweb gallery page. Which will add download links on each image. Now its time to download all the images. Select DownThemAll/DownThemAll in the contextual menu and type “imgdl=1″ in the Additional filters box. Now click on start to start downloading all the images using DownThemAll plugin.
You can install firefox-greasemonkey plugin as follows. (This needs a firefox browser restart)
aptitude install firefox-greasemonkey
DownthemAll can be installed via Mozilla addon’s webpage or you can also visit the link given above. DownthemAll can be used for many more things. Just hack it.
Isn’t it great! I found this info on blogspot.