Hi,

I have an "import" script that I'm using, which "grabs" images from one of our other sites - and then inserts them into itself. The code is as follows: 
$tmp[3] =~ s/^\[|\]$//g;
foreach ( split /,/, $tmp[3]) {
    my $ext = (reverse split /\./, $_)[0];
    my $fname = "/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/IMPORT/tmp
+_images/" . CORE::time() . random_string() . ".$ext";
    `wget --quiet -O $fname "$fname" "$_"`;
    $hit->{"Image$images_count"} = GT::SQL::File->open($fname);
    $images_count++;
}

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This is ok - but its pretty slow. Is there a better way to "grab" all the images at once? Would that even make a difference? (we have potentially 13 images per listing, and over 13,000 listings).

What I was thinking of, is getting all 13 of those images at once... and THEN doing the loop (without individual requests, which I guess is whats slowing it down)

Any suggestions?

TIA

Andy

In reply to Quicker way to batch grab images? by ultranerds

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