Pagination: Scrape Images Across Multiple Pages

When one page is not the whole gallery

Galleries, catalogs, and search results rarely fit on a single page. They split across page 1, page 2, page 3, and so on, with a Next button or numbered links at the bottom. Scanning each page by hand works, but it is tedious and easy to lose track of. Pagination in Bulk Image Downloader From URL List handles the page-to-page movement for you, so a multi-page set comes back in one run.

Flip on Pagination in the side panel before you start a scan, and the extension keeps going past the first page — collecting images from each one and adding them to your results as it moves through the set.

Two ways to paginate

There are two modes, and which one you want depends on how predictable the site is.

• Auto-detect — the extension looks for next-page links and chases them on its own. This is the hands-off option for sites with a clear Next control or numbered pagination. You turn it on, start the scan, and let it follow the trail.
• Manual range — you take control and set the boundaries yourself. Define the start and end pages — page X to page Y — plus a max depth so the run has a hard limit. This is the dependable choice when you know exactly how many pages you want, or when auto-detect cannot find the links on an unusual layout.

Setting it up

• Open the side panel and turn on Pagination before scanning.
• Choose auto-detect to follow next-page links automatically, or switch to manual range.
• For manual range, set the first and last page you want, plus the max depth.
• Start your scan; the extension works through the pages and stacks images into your results.
• Watch the live status — mode, elapsed time, and permission notices — and use Stop Scan if you need to bail out early.

Pagination and bulk URL scraping

It helps to know where pagination fits. If you already have a list of separate page addresses, the bulk URL scraping feature opens each one in turn — that is the better fit for unrelated URLs. Pagination is for a single starting point that continues across its own sequence of pages. The two pair well: use bulk URL scraping when one address is not enough, and lean on pagination when a single gallery simply spans multiple pages. Both feed the same results pipeline, so filters, deduplication, and sessions apply either way.

Getting clean results from many pages

Scanning several pages naturally pulls in more images, including repeats — the same photo at different sizes, or a thumbnail and its full-resolution version. Keep Stack Mode on so each page adds to one combined collection rather than wiping the previous page. Then, once the run finishes, tighten things up: apply dimension and file-type filters to cut the noise, and run URL deduplication to drop repeated links before you send anything to a download task. Set a sensible max depth so a large catalog does not run longer than you intend. Done right, a sprawling multi-page gallery collapses into a single clean batch you can act on.