Grid vs Table View for Scraper Results

Two ways to look at your results

Once a scan fills your results, how you view them changes how fast you can work. Bulk Image Downloader From URL List gives you two layouts, and each is suited to a different task. Grid view shows thumbnails for a quick visual scan — ideal when you are eyeballing photos and want to spot the ones you want. Image Table trades the thumbnails for columns of detail: title, source URL, alt text, dimensions, format, and size. When you need to judge images by their data rather than their look, the table is the better view.

Switching between them is part of the normal flow. Use the grid to recognize content, then flip to the table when you want to sort and select by the numbers.

Selecting in bulk

Working through a big list one checkbox at a time is no way to live. The selection controls handle the heavy lifting:

• Select All — grab everything at once.
• Select None — clear your selection and start over.
• Invert — flip the selection, which is the fast way to keep most images and drop a few.

A live count shows exactly how many images you currently have selected, so there is no guessing about the size of your batch. In the table, the header checkbox selects every row in one move, and each row also lets you copy that single image’s URL when you only need one.

Sorting and trimming the noise

The table makes your results sortable. You can sort by URL, width, height, or file size, and flip between ascending and descending order — useful for pushing the largest images to the top or grouping by source. To cut third-party clutter, turn on Current domain only. That strips out images served from other domains — ads, tracking pixels, and CDN noise — leaving the content that actually belongs to the page you scanned.

If you are dealing with thousands of images and the browser starts to struggle, turn thumbnails off to lighten the load. And when you want a clean slate, Clear Images wipes the results so you can start fresh.

Replace vs append when sending to a task

When you send images to a download task that already has URLs in it, the extension asks how to handle the overlap with a small modal offering three choices:

• Replace — swap out the existing URLs for the new set.
• Append — add the new images on top of what is already there.
• Cancel — leave the task untouched.

This keeps you from accidentally overwriting a list you meant to build on, or doubling up when you only wanted to swap.

Putting the views to work

A practical rhythm: scan, switch to the table, sort by size, turn on Current domain only to drop the junk, then select what you want — Select All and Invert make quick work of it. Check the live count, then send the batch to a task and pick Replace or Append depending on whether you are starting over or adding. If you ever lose track of the flow, the Help tab in the side panel has a scrape-to-download checklist to get you back on track.