regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:09 AM

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I'm VERY much a Python beginner and still very much unfamiliar with good scripts. I am trying to scrape Yearbook pictures from a website and each picture is connected to the link of the page, where the picture changes when the link changes. So for example, the "0001" in the link is the first page of the yearbook, whereas "0175" would be the 175th page.

I want Python to scrape all 200 pictures and save them to a file on my computer by using the links and searching/saving manually all the pages of the books by changing the numbers in the link. I got a basic script online, but anytime I use it, I keep getting "indentationerror" or other such errors, and I think my script is just wrong. The script will be inserted below. Any help would be enormously appreciated.

sacred patioBOT Mar 25, 2026, 4:09 AM

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regal pond I'm VERY much a Python beginner and still very much unfamiliar with good scripts...

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@regal pond

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Show a code sample as text (rather than a screenshot) and the error message, if you've got one.
Explain what you expect to happen and what actually happens.

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regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:10 AM

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import requests
import os

Updated base URL (as per your provided URL)

base_url = "https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164a58ddb4a8/1100/0001.jpg?h=7fb49000fc99d751f0efab372937d731"
image_extension = ".jpg" # Assuming the images are in .jpg format

Folder to save the images

save_folder = "1980 Fordson" # Set the folder name to "1980 Fordson"
if not os.path.exists(save_folder):
os.makedirs(save_folder)

Define the page range (from 0001 to 0208)

start_page = 1
end_page = 208

Loop through each page number from 0001 to 0208

for page_num in range(start_page, end_page + 1):
# Format the page number with leading zeros (e.g., 1 becomes '0001', 50 becomes '0050')
page_str = str(page_num).zfill(4)

# Construct the image URL
image_url = f"{base_url}{page_str}{image_extension}"

try:
    # Send an HTTP GET request to fetch the image
    response = requests.get(image_url)

    # Check if the request was successful
    response.raise_for_status()

    # Define the local path where the image will be saved
    image_path = os.path.join(save_folder, f"page_{page_str}{image_extension}")

    # Save the image to the specified path
    with open(image_path, "wb") as file:
        file.write(response.content)

    print(f"Downloaded page {page_str} successfully.")

except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
    # Handle errors (e.g., page doesn't exist or network issues)
    print(f"Failed to download page {page_str}: {e}")

print("Download process complete!")

sacred patioBOT Mar 25, 2026, 4:10 AM

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Hey @regal pond!

Please edit your message to use a code block

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:34 AM

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well it's definitely affecting the visibility of your code to my eyes (it's very hard to read)

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follow what the embed says

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:36 AM

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import requests
import os

# Updated base URL (as per your provided URL)
base_url = "https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164a58ddb4a8/1100/0001.jpg?h=7fb49000fc99d751f0efab372937d731"
image_extension = ".jpg"  # Assuming the images are in .jpg format

# Folder to save the images
save_folder = "1980 Fordson"  # Set the folder name to "1980 Fordson"
if not os.path.exists(save_folder):
    os.makedirs(save_folder)

# Define the page range (from 0001 to 0208)
start_page = 1
end_page = 208

# Loop through each page number from 0001 to 0208
for page_num in range(start_page, end_page + 1):
    # Format the page number with leading zeros (e.g., 1 becomes '0001', 50 becomes '0050')
    page_str = str(page_num).zfill(4)

    # Construct the image URL
    image_url = f"{base_url}{page_str}{image_extension}"

    try:
        # Send an HTTP GET request to fetch the image
        response = requests.get(image_url)

        # Check if the request was successful
        response.raise_for_status()

        # Define the local path where the image will be saved
        image_path = os.path.join(save_folder, f"page_{page_str}{image_extension}")

        # Save the image to the specified path
        with open(image_path, "wb") as file:
            file.write(response.content)

        print(f"Downloaded page {page_str} successfully.")

    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        # Handle errors (e.g., page doesn't exist or network issues)
        print(f"Failed to download page {page_str}: {e}")

print("Download process complete!")

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:36 AM

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agile plover follow what the embed says

Like this?

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:36 AM

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right

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and you say you got an IndentationError? can you copy-paste the full error message please?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:38 AM

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The characters for it are too long

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:39 AM

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!paste

sacred patioBOT Mar 25, 2026, 4:39 AM

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Pasting large amounts of code

So that everyone can easily read your code, you can paste it in this website:
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After pasting your code, save it by clicking the Paste! button in the bottom left, or by pressing CTRL + S. After doing that, you will be navigated to the new paste's page. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:39 AM

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^ you can use this

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:39 AM

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📎 5YUQ.txt

sacred patioBOT Mar 25, 2026, 4:39 AM

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regal pond

Click here to see this code in our pastebin.

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:40 AM

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regal pond

This is the error I keep getting

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:40 AM

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oh are you using repl?

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:40 AM

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@regal pond how are you running this code? it looks like you're just pasting it into a Python shell (like IDLE)?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:40 AM

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Yeah I just kinda copy-pasted it

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I have a feeling it's not right but I'm too novice to know how to fix it really

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:40 AM

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you are pasting your code into a window like this?

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:40 AM

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you should save the code to a .py file then run it

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:41 AM

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agile plover you are pasting your code into a window like this?

Yep just for the newest version of Python on Windows, but yeah it looks just like that

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:42 AM

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brittle hatch you should save the code to a .py file then run it

Sorry I'm very much inexperienced, how would I go about doing that exactly?

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:42 AM

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did you install any code editor?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:42 AM

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All of this is so new to me

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:42 AM

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also just curious, who gave you the code? they didnt explain how to use it?

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:43 AM

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regal pond Sorry I'm very much inexperienced, how would I go about doing that exactly?

you would use a code editor (there are several choices here, but "Thonny" is a good one for beginners. but even Notepad technically works) to write your code into then simply save it to a file ending in .py

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:43 AM

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agile plover did you install any code editor?

I just installed Python from the website I tried going from there

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Not familiar with all of this stuff, just trying to learn as I go

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:43 AM

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regal pond ```py import requests import os # Updated base URL (as per your provided URL) b...

this code, who gave you this code?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:43 AM

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agile plover this code, who gave you this code?

...ChatGPT

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As ashamed as I am to admit

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Desperate times called for desperate measures, I'm very much anti-AI but I don't know how to do this stuff myself

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:44 AM

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well i was wondering why the code is wrong

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:44 AM

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I was hoping it would give me a template script I could use but it's not good unfortunately

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:44 AM

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base_url = "https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164a58ddb4a8/1100/0001.jpg?h=7fb49000fc99d751f0efab372937d731"
# ...
page_str = str(page_num).zfill(4)
# Construct the image URL
image_url = f"{base_url}{page_str}{image_extension}"
```the URL this generates will be wrong

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instead of generating
website.com/0001.jpg and
website.com/0002.jpg and so on, it will instead create
website.com/0001.jpg?h=some_code0001.jpg and
website.com/0001.jpg?h=some_code0002.jpg

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even if you successfully run it, it wouldnt work

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:47 AM

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base_url = "https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164a58ddb4a8/1100/{num:04}.jpg"
# ...
image_url = base_url.format(num=page_num)

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:47 AM

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agile plover even if you successfully run it, it wouldnt work

Interesting...

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:48 AM

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brittle hatch ```py base_url = "https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164...

this this is what it should have been

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:48 AM

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I wonder why it generated the script like that

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:48 AM

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well, with the query params too

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:48 AM

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it works without the param

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:48 AM

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ah you tested it

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:48 AM

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brittle hatch ```py base_url = "https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164...

So would this be the start of it instead?

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:48 AM

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it's probably just some tracking thing 😆

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:48 AM

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ah right

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:49 AM

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regal pond So would this be the start of it instead?

you would replace certain lines of the script with this.
but let's start with how to edit and run Python scripts to begin with.

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:52 AM

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This is one of those things I really need a one-time template for so I can kinda just bulk save a buncha old local yearbooks for archival purposes. As much as I do want to learn Python in the future, I feel like it'd be a bit of a hassle for a newbie like me to take on just to learn one script

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I'm so lost rn 😔

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So was there anything wrong with the second half of my script? Aside from formatting

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:53 AM

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regal pond This is one of those things I really need a one-time template for so I can kinda...

well, even then you need to learn how to run scripts, no?

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even if you got perfect code from somewhere, you need to actually run it on your machine

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:55 AM

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Wouldn't the script be the only thing I'd need at that point, then?

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Just sorta copy and paste it for future uses?

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Replacing the URL of course

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:55 AM

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regal pond This is one of those things I really need a one-time template for so I can kinda...

think of the things you could get up to if you can write your own script, you could automate lots of boring stuff like paperwork, etc.

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:56 AM

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regal pond Just sorta copy and paste it for future uses?

possibly, depending on how similar the websites you will need to archive in the future will be.

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:56 AM

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right now you already met a scenario where it would have been nice if you knew how to code

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:56 AM

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Of course, that's true. I want to get into sports analytics in the future and Python could be a big help, I get that. I'm just very preoccupied with personal stuff atm so it's one of those things I don't have the time to really sit down and try to learn with full focus

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 4:57 AM

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brittle hatch possibly, depending on how similar the websites you will need to archive in the ...

It's mainly just this website only that has a number of different pictures I'd like to save, and then afterwards I won't really need anything else from this site after I have them saved

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 4:58 AM

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regal pond Of course, that's true. I want to get into sports analytics in the future and Py...

I get that, so I'm not going to say that you must learn Python right now (as good as it would be).
but for your immediate problem, there's no getting around at least learning how to save and run scripts.

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 4:59 AM

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perhaps we should install notepad++?

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actually just notepad is fine

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:00 AM

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I have Notepad, it's what I've been using to edit the scripts

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:01 AM

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regal pond I have Notepad, it's what I've been using to edit the scripts

OK, so you have it saved somewhere?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:01 AM

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Yeah, I have it open in Notepad right now and saved on my PC, but it's that same bad script I sent earlier

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:01 AM

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you want to make sure file name extensions is turned on

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let's make sure that you are saving your script as script.py and not script.py.txt

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:02 AM

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(for Windows 11)

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:02 AM

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Yup just checked it

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:02 AM

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double check your script's file name

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:02 AM

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regal pond Yeah, I have it open in Notepad right now and saved on my PC, but it's that same...

which folder is it saved in?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:02 AM

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📎 Python_Script.txt

sacred patioBOT Mar 25, 2026, 5:02 AM

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regal pond

Click here to see this code in our pastebin.

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:03 AM

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is it something.py or something.py.txt

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:03 AM

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It's just .txt

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:03 AM

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you have to rename the file

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:04 AM

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To .py?

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:04 AM

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yes

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:04 AM

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So Python Script.py would be good to rename it, right

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or .py.txt

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:04 AM

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.py, not .py.txt

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the name before it can be whatever you want
personally I would go with something more descriptive than Python Script.py, hah

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:05 AM

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Lol I'm not very original, as you guys can tell

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:05 AM

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it's fine

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:05 AM

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OK, so which folder is it saved in?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:06 AM

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Just in downloads, should I make a folder in like documents and save it in that?

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:06 AM

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it's fine wherever

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:06 AM

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so long as you know where it is saved

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:07 AM

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now please open Terminal

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:07 AM

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Alright, it's open

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:08 AM

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do cd Downloads then ls, and post a screenshot (censor any personal info if you want)

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:17 AM

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brittle hatch do `cd Downloads` then `ls`, and post a screenshot (censor any personal info if ...

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Sorry I don't know if I did it right but I hope I did

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:17 AM

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that Script.py is the one we're working on, yes?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:17 AM

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Yes

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:17 AM

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ok. so, you can run it with py Script.py
I expect there will be more errors, but let's deal with them one by one

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:20 AM

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I keep trying to open Python but it's only opening Terminal but saying it's Python, and when I paste it it keeps saying:

 File "<python-input-0>", line 1
    py Script.py
       ^^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:20 AM

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don't open Python.

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:20 AM

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regal pond

write py Script.py in this window.

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:23 AM

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PS C:\Users\Moodo> py Script.py
C:\Users\Moodo\AppData\Local\Python\pythoncore-3.14-64\python.exe: can't open file 'C:\\Users\\Moodo\\Script.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:24 AM

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did you close that window?

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the cd Downloads was important. it placed you in the Downloads directory so you could directly access Script.py

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:24 AM

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brittle hatch did you close that window?

The NotePad window with the script or file explorer? (or neither?)

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:26 AM

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the Terminal window

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:26 AM

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regal pond

this one

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:26 AM

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Yeah I did

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 5:28 AM

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brittle hatch the `cd Downloads` was important. it placed you in the Downloads directory so yo...

so see ^

dire flower Mar 25, 2026, 5:28 AM

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Navigate back with cd or just open the terminal from file explorer if it's in the script's folder

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:37 AM

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I think I did it right this time, but it just keeps saying:

PS C:\Users\Moodo\Downloads> py Script.py
Failed to download page 0001: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164a58ddb4a8/1100/0001.jpg?h=7fb49000fc99d751f0efab372937d7310001.jpg

and so on and so on up until page 208 (final page of the book)

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I think I have to change the start to put your script change from before, it still had my old one I believe

dire flower Mar 25, 2026, 5:41 AM

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Seems like you must be authorized to use this website

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:42 AM

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regal pond I think I did it right this time, but it just keeps saying: ```py PS C:\Users\Mo...

you are running the chatgpt code

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:42 AM

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agile plover you are running the chatgpt code

Yeah I think so

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:43 AM

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just for reference https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164a58ddb4a8/1100/0001.jpg is accessible and does not give 403 error

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:49 AM

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brittle hatch ```py base_url = "https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164...

So run this? @agile plover

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:49 AM

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regal pond So run this? <@496498864912728076>

not so fast

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:49 AM

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Just put that at the start with the rest and just go from there?

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:50 AM

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you need to replace the problematic part

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not just add on the code

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# Updated base URL (as per your provided URL)
base_url = "https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164a58ddb4a8/1100/0001.jpg?h=7fb49000fc99d751f0efab372937d731"
image_extension = ".jpg"  # Assuming the images are in .jpg format
```first replace this with
```py
base_url = "https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164a58ddb4a8/1100/{num:04}.jpg"

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this replaces the incorrect template that chatgpt was using to construct the image's URL

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next replace

# Construct the image URL
image_url = f"{base_url}{page_str}{image_extension}"
```with
```py
# Construct the image URL
image_url = base_url.format(num=page_num)

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this line of code generates the image URL from the template URL that @Bharadwaj Raju fixed

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copy and paste the content of the file that you have now

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let's double check

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:57 AM

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📎 Script.py

sacred patioBOT Mar 25, 2026, 5:57 AM

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regal pond

Click here to see this code in our pastebin.

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:58 AM

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do you know how to run the file?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:59 AM

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Yeah, isn't it just py Script.py?

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:59 AM

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are you in the correct folder?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:59 AM

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Like Bharadwaj Raju said earlier

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 5:59 AM

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agile plover are you in the correct folder?

Yeah it's still the same downloads folder

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 5:59 AM

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right, now give it a try

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let's see if we meet some error

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 AM

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Same as before

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 AM

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have you saved the file?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 AM

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regal pond I think I did it right this time, but it just keeps saying: ```py PS C:\Users\Mo...

This error

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 AM

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agile plover have you saved the file?

Yes

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 6:01 AM

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Can you paste the full error message again? Please copy and paste it again, even if it seems similar to the previous one

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 6:01 AM

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copy the error and paste it here

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 6:02 AM

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PS C:\Users\Moodo\Downloads> py Script.py
Failed to download page 0001: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://yb.cmcdn.com/yearbooks/5/0/9/2/509240e16947ef504c34164a58ddb4a8/1100/0001.jpg

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It just does it so on and so on until page 208 again

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 6:02 AM

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OK interesting

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I can visit that page in a browser just fine

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So maybe it's rejecting non-browser user agents?

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 6:03 AM

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Is the link in my script messed up, maybe?

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 6:04 AM

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Nah, the exact link in the error would work if you open it in a browser. Try it yourself

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 6:04 AM

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regal pond

When I copy and paste the link here it leads to an error, but idk if that's just how the link is supposed to look like for this script

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 6:04 AM

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brittle hatch So maybe it's rejecting non-browser user agents?

hmm, same for me

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 6:05 AM

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The main site of it is a bit strict but I don't believe they'd be able to bypass something like Python simply scraping the pictures from the link automatically though

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It's gotta be an issue with my script that I have wrong

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 6:06 AM

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nope

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 6:06 AM

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regal pond The main site of it is a bit strict but I don't believe they'd be able to bypass...

No, that's a fairly simple anti-scraping measure to take for a website

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 6:08 AM

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unfortunately that does mean it's against the rules for us to bypass this

regal pond Mar 25, 2026, 6:09 AM

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So there's no possible way to do it?

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😔

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 6:09 AM

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It's possible, quite easily too

agile plover Mar 25, 2026, 6:09 AM

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but it would be against the rules

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 6:09 AM

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But as a rule, we don't help with circumventing website protections on this server

brittle hatch Mar 25, 2026, 6:12 AM

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brittle hatch So maybe it's rejecting non-browser user agents?

But I have given you enough of a hint here to be able to do it yourself with just a little bit of digging ^^

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Updated base URL (as per your provided URL)

Folder to save the images

Define the page range (from 0001 to 0208)

Loop through each page number from 0001 to 0208