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    Sep 27, 2015
    minouris posted a message on MTG Image - Provides high resolution card images
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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!


    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 Smile
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    Mar 18, 2015
    minouris posted a message on Minouris's Library - Collection Manager and Deck Builder (Massive deck builder update!)
    There's another API that has most of the images - http://api.mtgdb.info/. Hopefully they'll stick around for a while without suffering a similar fate. There's also another tool in this thread for pulling down images from assorted sources, if you don't mind preloading them.
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    Mar 17, 2015
    minouris posted a message on Minouris's Library - Collection Manager and Deck Builder (Massive deck builder update!)
    Dragons of Tarkir has been added to the database - enjoy! Smile
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    Mar 16, 2015
    minouris posted a message on MTG JSON - New website provides MTG card data in JSON format
    Hey Sembiance Smile

    Quick question... In the wake of MTGImage going down, will the imageName field still be populated with a unique value?
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