Hmmm, it's too bad that your site went down. I had meant to reach out to you, my fan-project mtgddb.parseapp.com was relying on you.
I've reached out to wizards to see if I can't just hotlink off their site instead, since they (understandably) don't seem to like people hosting the image collection.
Hmmm, it's too bad that your site went down. I had meant to reach out to you, my fan-project mtgddb.parseapp.com was relying on you.
I've reached out to wizards to see if I can't just hotlink off their site instead, since they (understandably) don't seem to like people hosting the image collection.
Do tell us how that goes - I see a lot of "without permission"s in their T&Cs... It'd be interesting if actually asking would result in a Sir Didymus moment
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I'm new to this forum so I hope this is the right place to post this. If not, pls redirect to correct place.
Has anyone discovered alternative sources for downloading images? I'm creating a new app using mtgjson (what a great resource!) but it will be pretty useless if it can't display card images. Naturally I would like to be able to display any and all cards, old and new. I've been doing quite a bit of searching and this appears to be a big problem for lots of developers.
It looks like it might be possible to get images directly from wizards.com, but I imagine it's not that simple. Plus, I'm not sure whether that's even permissible.
Any update on this topic would be much appreciated!
I'm new to this forum so I hope this is the right place to post this. If not, pls redirect to correct place.
Has anyone discovered alternative sources for downloading images? I'm creating a new app using mtgjson (what a great resource!) but it will be pretty useless if it can't display card images. Naturally I would like to be able to display any and all cards, old and new. I've been doing quite a bit of searching and this appears to be a big problem for lots of developers.
It looks like it might be possible to get images directly from wizards.com, but I imagine it's not that simple. Plus, I'm not sure whether that's even permissible.
Any update on this topic would be much appreciated!
Up until fairly recently there was another API (mtgapi) that was serving up the images, but that's since been taken down.
The T&Cs for Gatherer, unfortunately, prohibit scraping their site for images (their images are a bit low-res anyway)
Some sites use MagicCards.info as an image source, although I'm not sure what MCI's own stance on this is (of any of their devs frequent these forums, I'd love to hear their position). They use a special set code (included in MTGJSON) and the number of the card in the set (with some exceptions - see this post for information on how to generate missing card numbers) to construct their URL... Some examining of their site should turn up the rest of the info you need
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Some sites use MagicCards.info as an image source, although I'm not sure what MCI's own stance on this is (of any of their devs frequent these forums, I'd love to hear their position).
I'm not Hannes (the former owner of MTGS and current owner of MCI) but I have talked to him about using MCI in relation to Scry. He was fine with it at the time. To be fair to him I use MCI's partner key for TCGPlayer's pricing API so at least he gets some kickback from Scry using MCI images.
I managed to download the crops, but the AllSets.hq.zip always stops at around 400MB... did you manage to successfully download it all?
nope, same w/ me. stopped around 400mb.
use winrar to repair the zip (it works), then unzip it. you'll get everything from beta-antiq before it errors out. i believe you also get legends, although don't quote me.
I've reached out to wizards to see if I can't just hotlink off their site instead, since they (understandably) don't seem to like people hosting the image collection.
Do tell us how that goes - I see a lot of "without permission"s in their T&Cs... It'd be interesting if actually asking would result in a Sir Didymus moment
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
Has anyone discovered alternative sources for downloading images? I'm creating a new app using mtgjson (what a great resource!) but it will be pretty useless if it can't display card images. Naturally I would like to be able to display any and all cards, old and new. I've been doing quite a bit of searching and this appears to be a big problem for lots of developers.
It looks like it might be possible to get images directly from wizards.com, but I imagine it's not that simple. Plus, I'm not sure whether that's even permissible.
Any update on this topic would be much appreciated!
Up until fairly recently there was another API (mtgapi) that was serving up the images, but that's since been taken down.
The T&Cs for Gatherer, unfortunately, prohibit scraping their site for images (their images are a bit low-res anyway)
Some sites use MagicCards.info as an image source, although I'm not sure what MCI's own stance on this is (of any of their devs frequent these forums, I'd love to hear their position). They use a special set code (included in MTGJSON) and the number of the card in the set (with some exceptions - see this post for information on how to generate missing card numbers) to construct their URL... Some examining of their site should turn up the rest of the info you need
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
I'm not Hannes (the former owner of MTGS and current owner of MCI) but I have talked to him about using MCI in relation to Scry. He was fine with it at the time. To be fair to him I use MCI's partner key for TCGPlayer's pricing API so at least he gets some kickback from Scry using MCI images.
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Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
Seems to have been fixed now
Minouris's Library - Collection manager and deck builder. It's nifty - Check it out!
https://web.archive.org/web/20150306025621/http://mtgimage.com/
use winrar to repair the zip (it works), then unzip it. you'll get everything from beta-antiq before it errors out. i believe you also get legends, although don't quote me.
you can also try different dates w/ archive.org.