If you want the spoiler-resolution images I have them all in my generator. Well, they're links to the spoiler images, but they may be in a more useful format than scraping other sites because I've already done it:
Also: Seconded. I love your sites! I use them all the time to figure out how to store data for my json and to get the set symbols. I'd use it for my card images, too, but I need to get them up way before you post them.
Have you considered including blank frames on the site? I know accurate templates exist (like like Magic Set Editor which can do every kind of frame and all sorts of multicolor) but I don't know of any the produce high quality images.
If you want the spoiler-resolution images I have them all in my generator. Well, they're links to the spoiler images, but they may be in a more useful format than scraping other sites because I've already done it:
Have you considered including blank frames on the site? I know accurate templates exist (like like Magic Set Editor which can do every kind of frame and all sorts of multicolor) but I don't know of any the produce high quality images.
I considered it once, but decided it was too specialized and beyond the scope of what I'm looking to provide with the site.
hi sembiance, any plans on serving the images on a secure connection? i'd like to use ssl on my site, but i'm not sure how i would then use mtgimage, apart maybe from proxying. directly hotlinking as i do now would show a warning to the user about loading insecure content.
hi sembiance, any plans on serving the images on a secure connection? i'd like to use ssl on my site, but i'm not sure how i would then use mtgimage, apart maybe from proxying. directly hotlinking as i do now would show a warning to the user about loading insecure content.
I do not currently have any plans to add https support to mtgimage.com
I know a few others have wanted this. Some ended up downloading the images to serve them locally. Another ended up proxying requests over to mtgimage through their server. I believe it's pretty simple in nginx to set up a proxy to go back to mtgimage.com, although I haven't look into this myself.
How much bandwidth are you serving monthly? CloudFlare provides HTTPS will all accounts, even free ones. Once traffics hits a certain point though, they could cut you off. Because all your assets are static, you could set longer cache headers and you'd see almost zero bandwidth on your origin server, once everything is cached on the CDN.
I know it's not a simple 'version.json' file with just the version, but the first entry in the changelog.json file is always the most recent and it contains a 'version' field that you can check.
I forgot to document that this file exists and so I just updated the site to make note of it.
So I just took a look at the zip file and I see the directories mentioned with images in them. Could you elaborate a bit more about what is broken about them? Are there images missing? If so, could you provide a couple examples?
I extracted it and the directories you mentioned have images, the images are of non-zero size and they are viewable and look ok.
What operating system are you using and what program are you using to unzip the files? I will then use the same to see if I can reproduce the issue you are seeing.
Ah, interesting. I'm using Windows 7 with the built in extractor in Windows Explorer. I'll try again with 7zip and report back.
EDIT: I tried with 7zip and everything works perfectly. My theory is that the CON folder which couldn't be extracted by Windows may have created issues with all cards stored after it in the zip archive. Sorry for the false alarm.
Ah, interesting. I'm using Windows 7 with the built in extractor in Windows Explorer. I'll try again with 7zip and report back.
EDIT: I tried with 7zip and everything works perfectly. My theory is that the CON folder which couldn't be extracted by Windows may have created issues with all cards stored after it in the zip archive. Sorry for the false alarm.
Aye, it's the CON folder.
See the 'Windows Warning' message I have about this in the 'zip' section on: http://mtgimage.com/
Thanks for your work as well. Unfortunately, I'm having problems.
I tried to download "all sets" with no luck (running Windows XP) and figured I needed to go to the Windows link instead. Tried that, the zipped folder was completely empty again. Figured it might be the Con folder so I tried to download just the Unlimited set. Empty folder with nothing to extract again. Downloaded 7zip with the same results.
If you want the spoiler-resolution images I have them all in my generator. Well, they're links to the spoiler images, but they may be in a more useful format than scraping other sites because I've already done it:
KTK generator: http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/ktk/
KTK main cards json: http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/ktk/cardsMain.json
KTK tokens json: http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/ktk/cardsToken.json
KTK other cards json (basic land, promos, pack-ins, etc): http://copper-dog.com/mtg-generator/ktk/cardsOther.json
Also: Seconded. I love your sites! I use them all the time to figure out how to store data for my json and to get the set symbols. I'd use it for my card images, too, but I need to get them up way before you post them.
Cheers!
-=Cam
Done. The site now has spoiler sized images for KTK, V14, M15 and CNS. Couldn't locate complete spoiler images for MD1, VMA and DDN.
Thanks! That was useful
I considered it once, but decided it was too specialized and beyond the scope of what I'm looking to provide with the site.
I do not currently have any plans to add https support to mtgimage.com
I know a few others have wanted this. Some ended up downloading the images to serve them locally. Another ended up proxying requests over to mtgimage through their server. I believe it's pretty simple in nginx to set up a proxy to go back to mtgimage.com, although I haven't look into this myself.
Sorry I don't have better news for you.
This is available in: http://mtgimage.com/changelog.json
I know it's not a simple 'version.json' file with just the version, but the first entry in the changelog.json file is always the most recent and it contains a 'version' field that you can check.
I forgot to document that this file exists and so I just updated the site to make note of it.
I downloaded your AllSets.hq.zip file and the following sets are broken. I downloaded twice to confirm. Thought it'd be good to inform you.
BNG
C13
C14
CNS
DDL (partially)
DDM
DDN
JOU
KTK
M15
MD1
THS
V14
VMA
So I just took a look at the zip file and I see the directories mentioned with images in them. Could you elaborate a bit more about what is broken about them? Are there images missing? If so, could you provide a couple examples?
Thanks
So I just double checked by downloading the file: http://mtgimage.com/zip/AllSets.hq.zip
I extracted it and the directories you mentioned have images, the images are of non-zero size and they are viewable and look ok.
What operating system are you using and what program are you using to unzip the files? I will then use the same to see if I can reproduce the issue you are seeing.
EDIT: I tried with 7zip and everything works perfectly. My theory is that the CON folder which couldn't be extracted by Windows may have created issues with all cards stored after it in the zip archive. Sorry for the false alarm.
Aye, it's the CON folder.
See the 'Windows Warning' message I have about this in the 'zip' section on: http://mtgimage.com/
Basically as a Windows user you want to download the Windows compatible zip file: http://mtgimage.com/zip/AllSetsWindows.hq.zip
Glad to hear though that 7zip worked around it for you.
I tried to download "all sets" with no luck (running Windows XP) and figured I needed to go to the Windows link instead. Tried that, the zipped folder was completely empty again. Figured it might be the Con folder so I tried to download just the Unlimited set. Empty folder with nothing to extract again. Downloaded 7zip with the same results.
Any ideas? I'm going to go try on another OS.
Windows XP
Tried on Vista, worked-no problems.
It has therefore been shut down.
You can see details on: http://mtgimage.com