Online Storage

[ainsoph9]

Would anyone here happen to know of a website that allows you to store pictures and view them online while allowing you to directing download them from their source site to the storage site without ever touching your hard drive?

[larethian]

Would anyone here happen to know of a website that allows you to store pictures and view them online while allowing you to directing download them from their source site to the storage site without ever touching your hard drive?

Picasa web album. It uses your google login, and not blocked in most places unlike imageshack.

[ainsoph9]

I forgot to add that the pictures would be in zip files and need to be unzipped there or elsewhere to be stored there.

[larethian]

I forgot to add that the pictures would be in zip files and need to be unzipped there or elsewhere to be stored there.

Is there really a necessity to zip? Since images are largely compressed themselves, zipping won't change file sizes that much AFAIK.
I think you can view files in a zip/rar archive in Google docs, though I have never tried it.

[ainsoph9]

Well, what I am trying to get files off of a site that come in zip files. I need to have them unzipped and stored on the online storage. I have been able to get the files into my MediaFire account, but I cannot get WobZip to recognize them. If I could get them to WobZip or some other site and back to MediaFire or Picasa, I would be fine.

[jonathanasdf]

what exactly is wrong with downloading them, unzipping, and then uploading them?

[ainsoph9]

I am trying to find a way to do this without it touching my computer. I am kind of doing it as a challenge for a "proof of concept" kind of thing in a sense. If it works, I will probably do it more in the future. If not, I will try to think of something else.

I wrote to the person/people operating WobZip about the MediaFire error, but I have yet to hear a response.

[jonathanasdf]

Well, you can probably write a script that pulls the files using http, unzips into a temporary directory, then uses ftp to upload to the hosts that support ftp upload (not sure if there are image sharing sites that have such an API, but there are definitely file sharing ones that do (or.. there were)), then deletes the temporary files.

That's still "cheating" since it's still going through your computer, but I don't think you're going to be able to find some online tool that does this for you.

[ainsoph9]

WopZip does do that, but it just does not like getting the files from MediaFire for some reason.

Also, I am not that savvy in terms of my programming skills. If I were, I probably would not be writing this right now.

[b0mb3r]

Photobucket?

[ainsoph9]

Will it extract the zip files online though?

[hobogunner]

uhm, the only place I would know that actually does this is Fakku!, of which, I won't let you use my uploader privileges. (You can set it to private.)

WopZip does do that, but it just does not like getting the files from MediaFire for some reason.

Also, I am not that savvy in terms of my programming skills. If I were, I probably would not be writing this right now.

Is it set to private or public or locked with password?

I've never used wobzip, but, I doubt anything can get something if it's protected.....though, I think you're smarter than that.

[ainsoph9]

I try to avoid that website, so I really would not ask anyhow.

Wobzip does not have those privacy settings on it.

Wobzip's response:

Hi

I am afraid that Wobzip does not unzip directly from MediaFire. This is because MediaFire links are not direct link to the file. Instead they have an intermediate page that prevents others from accessing their files. This page contains a security feature like captcha, which Wobzip is unable to decode.

You will have to download the file from MediaFire and then upload it to Wobzip to unzip. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best Regards,
WOBZIP Support Team

Are there any web storage sites that do not use this intermediate page and captcha?

[hobogunner]

Well, obviously for most, as wobzip is quite popular (so you'd assume their on the leading edge), you have to have a direct-to-file hyperlink (i.e.: (Not a link)http://yyy.com/db/unzipme.zip)
[That's what the thing is telling you]

So, either you need to find a storage site that gets you direct to link, or host it somewhere else, with a direct link.

[ainsoph9]

Yeah, that is what I am having a hard time finding.