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Sometimes we need to scrape the image URL from a website, but all we get is just the URL of a thumbnail picture instead of a normal-sized picture.
Here is a picture scraped from Amazon. As you can see, the image is too small to see.
To get the normal-size images, all we need to do is modify the image URL that we already have, following the steps below:
Observe the difference between the full image URL and the thumbnail URL
In most cases, the URLs of different sizes only have a slight difference. We need to find out the difference and use the Octoparse Clean Data function to reformat the thumbnail URL into a full URL.
For example, the thumbnail on Amazon is like this
The full image URL is
You can see the thumbnail has 'SR38,50' in its URL. We just need to delete it from the URL.
Add a step as Replace
Type in SR38,50 into the Replace box and click Evaluate to check
You will find the result is the URL you need, then click Confirm to save
Click Apply to save the setting
Then you can get the full image URL you need.