Archive wiki page images for offline reference
Archive wiki page images for offline reference is easier when you gather links first, then download in one pass with Bulk Image Downloader From URL List.
Wiki maintainers learn quickly that hotlinks rot. A page full of broken image icons usually means a source CDN moved paths or shut down—not that your article text failed. To download images for wiki archives properly, treat each figure as a record with a verified URL, a stable local filename, and permission to store it. Bulk collection without that discipline just recreates the same breakage on your own disk. Bulk Image Downloader From URL List gathers figures, audits links, dedupes repeats, and processes everything client-side so internal documentation never leaves your machine.Step 1: build a manifest before you download
Scan each source page from the side panel (Deep Scan when figures lazy-load; Stack Mode when a reference archive spans paginated index pages). Review the grid, deselect navigation sprites and icons, then export the results table to CSV. That file is your provenance log: original URL, page title, and collection date. Keep licensing notes beside the manifest. Mirroring a figure for private internal wiki use differs from republishing copyrighted diagrams publicly—this tool speeds collection; it does not grant rights beyond each image’s license.Step 2: verify URLs with 404 and redirect checkers
Do not archive dead links. Paste your URL list into the 404 checker, which issues fast HEAD requests and falls back to GET when a host blocks HEAD. Copy the reachable and unreachable lists separately—there is no automatic re-import, so paste the clean reachable set into a new download task manually. Run the redirect checker on the survivors to see 301/302 chains and record the final CDN endpoint in your manifest. Re-run both checks before major re-archive passes; hosts you trusted last year may now return placeholders or 404s.Step 3: dedupe so the knowledge base stays lean
- URL deduplication removes exact duplicate addresses before download
- perceptual duplicate finder groups visual twins saved at different sizes or formats—review clusters at Balanced sensitivity and keep one canonical file per figure
Step 4: name and store for long-term maintenance
Stable filenames beat mystery folders. Use Filename Constructor tokens—article slug plus sequence number—sorouting-diagram-04.jpg always maps to the same figure. Auto Folders can mirror source domain or topic path on disk. Strip EXIF for consistency; convert to PNG or JPEG in a dedicated task when your wiki standard requires one format (resize and convert remain mutually exclusive per task).