Commons:Batch uploading/Defenselink

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And yet another request because of the Fema request. Defenselink is the site of the US Department of Defense. It contains about 11.000 images in the form http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=11822 . So just loop over the id from 1 to about 12000 and parse each image. Multichill (talk) 22:18, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Current number is 15522 today. --Slick (talk) 17:46, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I wrote a script to download all files, extract the information and start the job on my computer. No uploads yet. --Slick (talk) 07:55, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Successful test the upload bot and now waiting for the bot flag--Slick (talk) 14:45, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
118 files are not queued to upload by several reasons (i.E. 404, download failed or others), the list can get here --Slick (talk) 08:22, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
uploads started, throttle to 1 upload / minute --Slick (talk) 10:42, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
throttle changed to 3 uploads / minute --Slick (talk) 10:37, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
upload finish. 14572 files uploadet. Latest uploaded News Image was #15522. --Slick (talk) 13:34, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Slick finish, uploadet 14572 images Slick-o-bot Defense.gov News Photos to check