[Req] Direct link to images hosted on imageshack

[maxbaggi]

Is it possible to make a filter that creates a direct link to the images hosted on Imageshack so that when we click on the thumbnail, it opens only the image instead of opening a html page with the image embedded in it?

An extension for firefox called de-imageshack is able to link to the image directly.
It is available here but I prefer using Opera, so it is of no use to me.

Here is an example of a webpage containing images hosted on Imageshack. I have attached a screenshot of the "de-imageshacked" version of the same webpage.

Please take a look at the statusbar in the screenshot. It shows the direct link to one of the images (the one under the tooltip/mouse pointer).

Thankyou for reading

[JJoe]

Code:

<a href="http://img359.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img359&image=2005dec14shakira38tw.jpg" target="_top">
<img src="http://img359.exs.cx/img359/4807/2005dec14shakira38tw.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Shakira at justpictures.info" />
[/url]

Looks like you need to remove ".th" or "th." from the thumbnail's address and use that for the linked file or

Code:

<a href="http://img359.exs.cx/img359/4807/2005dec14shakira38tw.jpg" target="_top">
<img src="http://img359.exs.cx/img359/4807/2005dec14shakira38tw.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Shakira at justpictures.info" />
[/url]

So you could try

Code:

[Patterns]
Name = "Imageshack link to pics"
Active = TRUE
Multi = TRUE
URL = "$TYPE(htm)"
Bounds = "<a*[/url]"
Limit = 256
Match = "\\1href=$AV(http://img[0-9]*)(*src=$AV(\\4.th(.jpg)\\5))\\2\\3"
Replace = "\\1href="\\4\\5"\\2\\3"

HTH

[ProxRocks]

I came up with this, but JJoe beat me to posting (due to socket errors upon returning to the forum)...

Name = "de-ImageShack [maxbaggi test filter #1] {Prox(Fox|Rocks)}"
Active = TRUE
URL = "$TYPE(htm)"
Bounds = "<a\s*<(/a>|(^(^a\s)))"
Limit = 512
Match = "\1http://\2/*loc=\3\&*image=\4.jpg\5img*//*/*/\6/*.th.jpg\7"
Replace = "\1http://\2/\3/\6/\4.jpg\5img src="http://\2/\3/\6/\4.th.jpg\7"

(F' the forum code command, it was "swallowing" my 'stack digits'...)

That will work for the page you cited, but being unfamiliar with "ImageShack Hostings", we'll see how it fares...

[ProxRocks]

follow-up: tried JJoe's and it is a much better approach...

[maxbaggi]

Thank you so much JJoe and ProxRocks for the filters I'm using the one created by JJoe and it is working great. Hopefully similar filters for other popular image hosting websites (like Imagevenue) will also be created.