[WS] Google Images Cover Search, cover art only Options

[pone]

first of all, thanks for updating. But i have one last suggestion:

You can search for quadratically pictures like i discribed here:
http://h-4.abload.de/img/fail3apes.jpg

Then you'll be sure you will find a cover. Its to avoid that you'll find pics which are not the covers, because covers are always quadratically!

And it would be great if i can search the other pages of the google results if its possible, because i've had one titel which only got low resolution (80x80 etc) in the first google page, but in the second a found a good resolution (600x600)

Anyway, I wrote a guide in the starting post how to costomize the script to use google advanced image search.

I'm sorry, but I don't know how to display more than 20 results.

[laurin148]

Anyway, I wrote a guide in the starting post how to costomize the script to use google advanced image search.

I'm sorry, but I don't know how to display more than 20 results.

thanks for this guide, now I can be sure to find the right cover in a good resolution .. now more than 20 results are not needed thanks for help ..

[songdog]

This script searches for cover art with google images.
It stores only the cover art, no other tags are written.

I used google.de/images for search because it's simpler than the .com version.
The tags album & artist are used for search input.

Feel free to write comments and suggestions for improvement!


Script Installation & Usage:
1. Download the script
2. Move the file into this folder: %appdata%\Mp3tag\data\sources
(just copy&paste this into windows explorer adress bar)
3. Run the script from Mp3Tag with this button:


How to edit the script ot use Google Advanced Image Search:
The scipt searches for all picture, regardless of size and aspect ratio.
But you can customize this:

1. open the script with a text editior (e.g. notepad.exe or wordpad.exe).

2. go to the line:
[IndexUrl]=http://www.google.de/images?q=%s
This is the standard search. By adding certain codes to it, you can make use of Google's Advanced Image Search.

3. Place this after the index url to use advanced search
&tbs=

4. Add the following codes separated by comma to limit your search:
iar:s _ _ _ quadratic pictures only

isz:s _ _ _ small (side length under 400 px)
isz:m _ _ _ medium (side length between 400 and 800 px)
isz:l _ _ _ large (side length over 800 px)
isz:lt,islt:qsvga _ _ _ larger than 400x300
isz:lt,islt:vga _ _ _ larger than 640x480
isz:lt,islt:svga _ _ _ larger than 800x600
isz:lt,islt:xga _ _ _ larger than 1024x768
isz:ex,iszw:500,iszh:500 _ _ _ exact file size (500x500 in this example)

ift:jpg _ _ _ .jpg files only
ift:png _ _ _ .png files only
ift:bmp _ _ _ .bmp files only
ift:gif _ _ _ .gif files only
ift:svg _ _ _ .svg files only

Example:
[IndexUrl]=http://www.google.de/images?q=%s&tbs=iar:s,isz:l,ift:jpg
gives you only quadratic large jpg files

If you want, you can make more verions of the script by giving them different filenames.


download:

When I save this script what should I name it in order for Mp3tag to recognise it?

-- Songdog

[pone]

When I save this script what should I name it in order for Mp3tag to recognise it?

-- Songdog

Script Installation & Usage:
1. Download the script
2. Move the file into this folder: %appdata%\Mp3tag\data\sources
(just copy&paste this into windows explorer adress bar)
3. Run the script from Mp3Tag with this button:

name it name.src

This post has been edited by pone: Mar 29 2011, 16:14

[songdog]

Script Installation & Usage:
1. Download the script
2. Move the file into this folder: %appdata%\Mp3tag\data\sources
(just copy&paste this into windows explorer adress bar)
3. Run the script from Mp3Tag with this button:

name it name.src

OK I did this and I don't see that anything has changed.
Here is the section of the script that I edited.

[Name]=Google Images Cover Search v 1.3
[BasedOn]=www.google.de
[IndexUrl]=http://www.google.de/images?q=%s&tbs=
[WordSeperator]=+
[IndexFormat]=%_url%|%filename%|%website%|%imagesize%|%filesize%|
[SearchBy]=$replace(%album%+$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),&,+,#,+,?,+,=,+,%,+)

What did I do wrong


-- Songdog

[pone]

[IndexUrl]=http://www.google.de/images?q=%s&tbs=

What did I do wrong

&tbs= alone means nothing, it has to be used in combination with one or more of the codes in step 4 of my detailed explanation. You simply forgot step four:


4. Add the following codes separated by comma to limit your search:
iar:s _ _ _ quadratic pictures only

isz:s _ _ _ small (side length under 400 px)
isz:m _ _ _ medium (side length between 400 and 800 px)
isz:l _ _ _ large (side length over 800 px)
isz:lt,islt:qsvga _ _ _ larger than 400x300
isz:lt,islt:vga _ _ _ larger than 640x480
isz:lt,islt:svga _ _ _ larger than 800x600
isz:lt,islt:xga _ _ _ larger than 1024x768
isz:ex,iszw:500,iszh:500 _ _ _ exact file size (500x500 in this example)

ift:jpg _ _ _ .jpg files only
ift:png _ _ _ .png files only
ift:bmp _ _ _ .bmp files only
ift:gif _ _ _ .gif files only
ift:svg _ _ _ .svg files only

Example:
[IndexUrl]=http://www.google.de/images?q=%s&tbs=iar:s,isz:l,ift:jpg

this gives you only quadratic (iar:s) large (iar:l) jpg (ift:jpg) files

This post has been edited by pone: Mar 30 2011, 01:39

[songdog]

&tbs= alone means nothing, it has to be used in combination with one or more of the codes in step 4 of my detailed explanation. You simply forgot step four:


4. Add the following codes separated by comma to limit your search:
iar:s _ _ _ quadratic pictures only

isz:s _ _ _ small (side length under 400 px)
isz:m _ _ _ medium (side length between 400 and 800 px)
isz:l _ _ _ large (side length over 800 px)
isz:lt,islt:qsvga _ _ _ larger than 400x300
isz:lt,islt:vga _ _ _ larger than 640x480
isz:lt,islt:svga _ _ _ larger than 800x600
isz:lt,islt:xga _ _ _ larger than 1024x768
isz:ex,iszw:500,iszh:500 _ _ _ exact file size (500x500 in this example)

ift:jpg _ _ _ .jpg files only
ift:png _ _ _ .png files only
ift:bmp _ _ _ .bmp files only
ift:gif _ _ _ .gif files only
ift:svg _ _ _ .svg files only

Example:
[IndexUrl]=http://www.google.de/images?q=%s&tbs=iar:s,isz:l,ift:jpg

this gives you only quadratic (iar:s) large (iar:l) jpg (ift:jpg) files

The way I read step 4 I understood that I only added those codes if I wished to limit my search
I'll try adding one ift:jpg and see if that works.

[pone]

The way I read step 4 I understood that I only added those codes if I wished to limit my search
I'll try adding one ift:jpg and see if that works.

If you don't want to limit your search, you do not have to edit at all!

(i'will make this clear in the starting post)

This post has been edited by pone: Mar 30 2011, 02:33

[SaJo]

Hi

this is also a nice script.
Think you're mr. nice script maker right?

ok
Another question i want to Search for Artist + Titel so what i have to change?
Because i have many digitalisied Vinyls and so on many different Songs (Albums/Vinyls) from
1 Artist so i have to search for Artist & Titel.

thx 4 help

[pone]

Another question i want to Search for Artist + Titel so what i have to change?

1. open the script with a text editior (e.g. notepad.exe or wordpad.exe).

2. go to the line:
[SearchBy]=$replace(%album%+$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%),&,+,#,+,?,+,=,+,%,+)

3. in this line, replace %album% with %title%

[pone]

Updated to 1.4

Fixed: Script did not work after changes at google.de/images

Fixed: Picture URLs with a ";" in it did not work

[pone]

Update 1.5:

FIXED:
Google introduced a new layout at images search. That stopped the script from working. Now it works again.

NEW:
I introduced two new columns at the "List of search results..." window:
"description" gives you an text extract form the page where the picture is from
"page" gives you the URL of the page where the picture is from

CHANGED:
The old script was made for google.de/images, this version is now for google.com/images. You can change that by simply changing the [IndexUrl]=.. line. I guess you can also put in other country domain ending to get country-specific search results. Just test it!

CHANGED:
I rearranged the different columns in at the "List of search results..." window.

CHANGED:
The "website" column comes now without leading "www."


- see starting post for download -

This post has been edited by pone: Dec 9 2011, 16:40

[TGK]

Hi !

Do you plan to do the same plug-in for www.discogs.com?

[pone]

Hi !

Do you plan to do the same plug-in for www.discogs.com?

You can already do this with my discogs script.
http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=10431


Set all "DISCOGS..." fields to "no"
Set "DISCOGS~TRACK_OPTION: LEAVE TRACK EMPTY?" to "yes"

Then the only thing which will be stored is the artwork.

[Hanstersex]

1.5 stop working for me now