How to get a full res image from an amazon zoom window

Question

I started this just to use as an internal reference for a project, and now I'm kind of obsessed with it - Amazon uses a zoom plugin to slice up a large image into pieces, and each piece is an image:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0714859583/ref=dp_otherviews_z_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&img=5

but I figure somewhere there has to be a full, high-res image that is not sliced up. Anyone know how to grab this? I can get a small one and I can get all the large pieces, but I want to get the complete large image.

Answer 1

Took me an hour of tinkering till I found an easy solution:

1. Go to the Amazon page of the item you want an image for.
2. Press ctrl U
3. Press ctrl F
4. Search "hiRes"
5. Copy and paste the links that come up next to "hiRes": until you find the image you're looking for. It should only take a few attempts to find the image you want.
6. On this new page, right click on the image and click "Save Image As". The pic is now yours!

Example:

1. Amazon item page: http://www.amazon.com/Carhartt-Thermal-Active-Jacket-J131/dp/B002G9U8A0/ref=cts_ap_1_fbt
2. Pressed ctrl U
3. Pressed ctrl F
4. Searched "hiRes"
5. The third "hiRes" down, I found a link like this: "hiRes":"http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81OjsM9ITDL.UL1500.jpg". Copied and pasted the link into my browser (sans quotation marks).
6. Saved image onto my computer!

Answer 2

with a bit of googling, firebug work and reading some other posts this is what ive figured

one of the parts of the big image u mentioned is

http://z2-ec2.images-amazon.com/R/1/a=0714859583+d=_SCR(2,3,3)_+o=01+s=RMTILE+va=MAIN+ve=196021930+e=.jpg

and the original big image is

http://z2-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0714859583.01._SX_SCRMZZZZZZZ_V196021930_.jpg

so to follow this to find out for all images the algorithm u have to follow is

• first part - http://z2-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/
• then the part following a=
• delete everything following d=
• followed by '.' then value following o= then '.'
• followed by _SX_SCRMZZZZZZZ_V
• followed by the part following ve= followed by _.jpg

does that make any sense???