Filter Images By Size
Most page scans collect more than the photos you wanted—tracking pixels, favicons, avatars, and tiny thumbnails ride along unless you stop them. Filter images by size in the side-panel scraper so junk never reaches your download folder.
Bulk Image Downloader From URL List measures width and height as images load in the scraper preview, then applies your thresholds to the current result set.
Step 1: scan the page first
Dimension filters narrow what the scan already found—they do not discover missing images. Start with Scan Current Page. If counts look low on lazy-loaded galleries, run Deep Scan or Continuous Scanning before filtering. Use Area Scan when only one gallery region matters.
Step 2: set width and height thresholds
In the side-panel filter controls, set:
- minimum width and height to drop 1×1 pixels, icons, and micro-thumbnails
- maximum width and height when you want to exclude oversized hero assets
Preview survivors in grid or table view before sending anything to a download task. A common starting point for editorial photos is 400×400 px minimum; product grids may need higher bars.
Step 3: combine with shape and type filters
Size alone may not isolate the assets you need. Layer:
- aspect ratio filters (square, landscape, portrait) for banners vs product shots
- file type filters for JPG, PNG, WebP, and other supported types
- domain or URL text search to focus on a CDN path or gallery folder
Save the combination as a Saved Rule when you revisit the same site layout weekly.
Step 4: send the filtered set to download
- confirm the filtered count in the side panel
- send selected images to the options page as a new task, append, or replace
- optionally enable per-task ZIP, Auto Folders, or filename patterns on the options page
- download only the URLs that passed your size gate
Need smaller files on disk? Resize on download changes output dimensions—that is separate from scraper filtering. Per task, choose either resize or convert (mutually exclusive). Convert outputs JPG, PNG, or WebP (no AVIF conversion).
Step 5: know the limits
- filters apply to the current side-panel collection, not to URLs you never scanned
- reported dimensions come from loaded preview metadata—broken or blocked images may show incomplete data
- task-level Download IF URL rules filter by URL text, not pixel size—use scraper filters for dimensions
For aspect-ratio detail, read filter images by dimensions and aspect ratio. Install it and treat size filters as the gate before download, not cleanup afterward.
Size filtering happens before the download step
The side panel can filter by size or type and drop copies while you are still collecting. That early gate is deliberate, because the side panel does not resize, convert, or watermark. Those operations belong to the download, so a picture you drop at scan time never reaches a processing step you would have paid for.
The practical order follows from that split. Scan the page, apply a rough size filter to cut obvious junk, then send the survivors to a download where thresholds and shape filters do the final pass. It keeps the expensive resize and convert work pointed only at images you intend to keep.
Continue reading: Filter Images By Dimensions And Aspect Ratio.