Article Image Downloader

Article Image Downloader

Downloads all images from a web article to a local directory.

When to Use

• Translating foreign articles and need to preserve original images
• Archiving web content with images
• Preparing content for WeChat/other platforms that need local images

Script

# Usage
bash ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/download-images.sh <article_url> [output_dir]

# Examples
bash ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/download-images.sh "https://example.com/article" ./imgs
bash ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/download-images.sh "https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic"

Parameters

Output

• Downloads all images to output_dir/
• Creates output_dir/manifest.json with image metadata
• Prints summary of downloaded images

How It Works

1. Uses Jina Reader API (r.jina.ai) to fetch article content as markdown
2. Extracts all image URLs from markdown (![...](url) pattern)
3. Downloads each image with proper filename
4. Generates manifest with original URLs and local paths

Example Output

Downloaded 10 images to ./imgs/

manifest.json:
{
  "source": "https://example.com/article",
  "images": [
    {"original": "https://...", "local": "img01.png"},
    {"original": "https://...", "local": "img02.jpeg"},
    ...
  ]
}

Integration with WeChat Publishing

After downloading images, use local paths in your HTML:

<img src="imgs/img01.png" alt="...">

The baoyu-post-to-wechat skill will automatically upload local images to WeChat's media library.