...to trace an image from it's hosting location to areas where it has been linked?

I am not sure that makes sense so let me explain. I have an image in my gallery and I want to find everywhere/somewhere that is has been posted. Is there a way to find that out starting at the gallery and if so how do you do it?

9/13/2007 12:55:15 PM

google the url

9/13/2007 1:08:56 PM

returned nothing

9/13/2007 1:27:58 PM

your stats pages

9/13/2007 1:37:52 PM

not sure what you mean by that but I the deal is...another site I am on is having a little competition to try and find 5 images somewhere in the threads of the site. The images are given and you have to find another thread that they are posted in. Instead of tracing through all of the threads individually I was wanting to search for them. The site admin has made it so you can't search the site itself or something like that.

9/13/2007 1:48:34 PM

only if you have admin access to the site. so in your case, no you cant.

you can however write a scraper script in 5 minutes that will do it

9/13/2007 1:51:34 PM

what is that and how do I do it?

9/13/2007 1:52:42 PM

which site and which images

9/13/2007 3:33:14 PM

^pm sent

9/13/2007 3:38:39 PM

can you not use:

link:http://www.thewolfweb.com/

in google?

9/13/2007 4:49:06 PM

it's not a link

[Edited on September 13, 2007 at 4:51 PM. Reason : <img src=...> not <a href=...>]

9/13/2007 4:49:51 PM

doesn't matter does it? it just searches for sites that "link" to the URL you provide, hence:

link:http://www.thewolfweb.com/picture.jpg

would provide search results that link to that picture correct?

i could be way off on this.

[Edited on September 13, 2007 at 5:45 PM. Reason : .]

9/13/2007 5:45:00 PM

that would work if a site had

<a href="http://www.thewolfweb.com/picture.jpg">link</a>

<img src="http://www.thewolfweb.com/picture.jpg">

9/13/2007 5:47:39 PM

right... i'm with ya now

i think my webstats shows that info, any referrer that links directly to a picture even if it's not a <a href= tag, i think most webstats are raw access based, not specifically tag link based

9/13/2007 6:03:04 PM

if you check the server logs on the server where the image is stored, you can see every request for that image. the browser will usually provide an HTTP_REFERRER value in the header, which is either the previous page the browser was at, or in the case of an image inlined in a webpage, the webpage that is displaying the image. according to the HTTP RFC, the browser does not have to provide this value, however most modern browsers will.

9/13/2007 6:08:17 PM

people, read the thread. he doesn't have access to logs, it's not his server.

the only way to pull this off is a scraper.

9/13/2007 6:16:08 PM

well I don't know how to write a scraper and haven't found any, or at least that I understand how to use. I am not very technologically skilled. If someone can write one or find one and tell me how to use it I would appreciate it.

9/13/2007 11:02:54 PM

well qntmfred wrote something up and ran a search but the only results it yielded were the 5 from the thread stating the rules of the scavenger hunt, no other locations. Any other help would be appreciated.

9/13/2007 11:46:11 PM