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Is there any software that can download all the full-size pictures of a publicly-shared Google+ album?

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Close-voters: I'm looking for a program (or a browser extension). Is that really a WebApps.StackExchange question? – Mehrdad Dec 21 '11 at 23:47
@Downvoter: Care to comment? – Mehrdad Dec 23 '11 at 19:31
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Try this tool: code.google.com/p/gpalbum – vurdalakov Feb 2 at 15:17
@vurdalakov: That's pretty darn amazing, thanks for making it!! – Mehrdad Feb 2 at 17:34
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As suggested by @vurdalakov

With this tool: http://code.google.com/p/gpalbum/
and an implementation of wget it is possible to have the files in seconds.

Download, unzip, and run the gpalbum program    
Visit the album and copy the url out of the address bar    
Paste the url into gpalbum    
Click "Get Image URLs"    
Click "Copy Image URLs to clipboard    
Paste URLs into any text editor    
replace all "https" with "wget https"    
Save it as a batch file    
Run

All the images are now downloaded locally, I have been looking for this for a while, just tried it and it is fantastic.

FYI Each line looks something like this 

wget https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/FULLIMAGEPATH.jpg

The specific version used for testing was 1.00 (update: 1.03 also tested).

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A bit codey, but not too bad. I like this solution. – music2myear Feb 2 at 16:30
Truth is it belonged to vurdalakov and I was just going to add details but it got deleted while I was editing. I've tried it on a couple of publicly posted albums and it is really sweet and I'm guessing it will run via Wine on Linux. Once everything is in place it is just clicking the right buttons. – Dennis Feb 2 at 16:51
Yea, his answer was deleted because it was just a link with no description or instructions, which isn't a very helpful answer even if it is technically correct. Your answer provides the necessary details. – music2myear Feb 2 at 16:57
I wish @vurdalakov could post this as an answer so we could vote it up... the tool is pretty darn useful! – Mehrdad Feb 2 at 17:35
@Dennis this tool also works with Linux and Mono! Instructions for Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install mono-runtime libmono-winforms2.0-cil libmono-microsoft8.0-cil and then run the tool with mono gpalbum.exe . Unfortunately this tool did not help me because I tried to download a private album (with Authkey) which is not possible right now :( – therealmarv May 17 at 15:18
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Using Picasa should allow you to download full albums to your computer.

Here's the how-to from Google support: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=6847c29152910e21&hl=en

This apparently only works for albums which are shared to Google+ from Picasaweb. Albums only in Google+ are not capable of being downloaded in bulk.

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I've already seen the instructions but those are for Picasa, not Google+. They only work for older accounts that aren't integrated with Google+. – Mehrdad Dec 21 '11 at 23:06
Then the most recent answer I've seen show that Google+-only albums are not capable of being downloaded in a single package. – music2myear Dec 21 '11 at 23:07
Obviously not with built-in functionality. That's why I'm asking if there's any program that can do it. – Mehrdad Dec 21 '11 at 23:12
Based on all albums my family shares (so purely anecdotal, I may be wrong, but this is our experience), Picasa still serves the images to G+ so there are Picasa albums that I have downloaded using Picasa and the tricks found at techmeasy.blogspot.com/2011/09/… the key for me was getting the address and using the ?noredirect=1 found in the post. But if I'm on a computer without Picasa I use the wget trick in my answer. – Dennis Feb 2 at 16:12
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