Want to save ebay ad for car I bought

micky > writes:

> In rec.autos.tech, on Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:59:04 -0400, Dan Espen
> > wrote:
>
>>micky > writes:
>>
>>> I bought a car on ebay last Thursday, and his ad included ~60 pictures!,
>>> so I wanted to save them, and using Firefox, I clicked on Save Page as,
>>> which is supposed to save every little part of a webpage, and at least
>>> once I've tried that and it worked.
>>>
>>> But this time I did it with the original listing and the one that shows
>>> up after I bought it and it only has the top screeen or two. Even
>>> though there were 57 pictures, the top left hand corner only had 12
>>> pictures, but even those don't "work". The first one shows but I can't
>>> get anything to show the others. The page is dead compared to a usual
>>> ebay page where clicking on thigns makews things happen.
>>>
>>> I copied all the text as a text file, but does anyone know I can
>>> download all the pictures, other than doing 57 screen shots?
>>
>>In the Firefox "Save As" dialog on the lower right you have choices:
>> Web Page complete
>> Web Page HTML only
>> Text Files
>> All Files
>
> Good point. But I did use Web Page Complete, .
>>
>>The Web Page complete option saves the web page HTML file with all the
>>links in the web page adjusted to use a local folder with the same name
>>as the HTML file. Like this:
>>
>> Directory AAS_files <== folder
>> File AAS.html <== original page with links adjusted
>>
>>All the images should be somewhere in that directory.
>>
>>If you used some other option, someone attempting to help would need to
>>know what you did.
>
> But you still solved the problem for me, because I tried Web Page HTML
> only and I got all the pictures, and afaicr, I got all the text too!!
>
> Yes I got all the text but I see the text is less sytlized. It has some
> bold and italics and some text in red, but all the letters are the same
> size -- Which is actually good some of the time because in the original
> some words from Ebay were overlaping other words.
>
> And the picture in the upper left works too. The row at the bottom of
> it scrolls and I can click on any of them to see it.
>
> Now I have to go back and try this with google satellite view!!! No, it
> didn't help. Now the page comes back all white, instead of almost all
> black. But one out of two is great!!

Of course it doesn't work.
The images on maps.google.com are drawn interactively by (my guess)
Javascript. Save As isn't going to help with that.

Use the technique I gave you in another post.
You need to use software that grabs the window contents as an image.

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On 06/27/2017 05:51 AM, Dan Espen wrote:

> Not to take anything away from this add on, but it strikes me as
> entirely unnecessary. On my Linux box, I'd use "xv" or "Gimp" to
> just grab an image of the window.

xv is faster and less intimidating :-) I also have Nimbus screenshot
for Firefox and Chrome, which works pretty well.

> If I recall correctly, pressing PrtScr on Windows should put the image
> in your copy buffer so that you can paste the image into any image
> editor (like Paint).

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Because she smells like a new truck.

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:51:05 -0400, Dan Espen >
wrote:

>micky > writes:
>
>> In rec.autos.tech, on Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:46:50 -0500, Muggles
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>On 6/26/2017 5:34 PM, micky wrote:
>>>> I bought a car on ebay last Thursday, and his ad included ~60 pictures!,
>>>> so I wanted to save them, and using Firefox, I clicked on Save Page as,
>>>> which is supposed to save every little part of a webpage, and at least
>>>> once I've tried that and it worked.
>>>>
>>>> But this time I did it with the original listing and the one that shows
>>>> up after I bought it and it only has the top screeen or two. Even
>>>> though there were 57 pictures, the top left hand corner only had 12
>>>> pictures, but even those don't "work". The first one shows but I can't
>>>> get anything to show the others. The page is dead compared to a usual
>>>> ebay page where clicking on thigns makews things happen.
>>>>
>>>> I copied all the text as a text file, but does anyone know I can
>>>> download all the pictures, other than doing 57 screen shots?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is not so I can later complain to the seller. I understand the
>>>> meaning of ASIS. It's mostly because I'll never get around to taking
>>>> pictures and he's already done a good job. (with the exception of the
>>>> dash. There are only 2 or 3 pictures of that and it misses things I'm
>>>> interested in, but nothing could be there except maybe poisonous snakes
>>>> that would have stopped me from buying the car.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I use Fireshot (add-in) with Firefox that takes screen captures of
>>>entire webpages.
>>
>> Well, googling found it and I cliced on Add to Firefox and it dl'd and
>> then I got the message it couldn't be installed because it's not
>> compatible with ff54.
>>
>> This might be related: I got to this page from a line in the Add-on
>> page of FF, which said nothing about Fireshot but did show up after I
>> searched for it and didn't find it and it said: "Missing something.
>> some plugins are not longer supported by FF"
>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...urce=inproduct
>> Beginning in Firefox version 52, support for NPAPI plugins in Firefox
>> has ended, except for Adobe Flash. Some of the plugins that will no
>> longer load include Java, Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Acrobat. See
>> this compatibility document for details.
>
>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...eviews/886925/
>
> by Tsavkko on June 22, 2017 · permalink
>
> Not working with the latest (54) version of Firefox...
> If it does not work, please reinstall it
>
> by susbox (Developer) on June 22, 2017 · permalink
>
> It was checked and tested with FX 54.
>
>Not to take anything away from this add on, but it strikes me as
>entirely unnecessary. On my Linux box, I'd use "xv" or "Gimp" to
>just grab an image of the window.
>
>If I recall correctly, pressing PrtScr on Windows should put the image
>in your copy buffer so that you can paste the image into any image
>editor (like Paint).
With Win10 you just use the snip tool. (but that, like GIMP is just
ONE screen, not the full "web page"

micky >
Mon, 26 Jun 2017
22:34:11 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

> I bought a car on ebay last Thursday, and his ad included ~60
> pictures!, so I wanted to save them, and using Firefox, I clicked
> on Save Page as, which is supposed to save every little part of a
> webpage, and at least once I've tried that and it worked.
>
> But this time I did it with the original listing and the one that
> shows up after I bought it and it only has the top screeen or two.
> Even though there were 57 pictures, the top left hand corner
> only had 12 pictures, but even those don't "work". The first one
> shows but I can't get anything to show the others. The page is
> dead compared to a usual ebay page where clicking on thigns makews
> things happen.
>
> I copied all the text as a text file, but does anyone know I can
> download all the pictures, other than doing 57 screen shots?
>
>
>
> This is not so I can later complain to the seller. I understand
> the meaning of ASIS. It's mostly because I'll never get around to
> taking pictures and he's already done a good job. (with the
> exception of the dash. There are only 2 or 3 pictures of that and
> it misses things I'm interested in, but nothing could be there
> except maybe poisonous snakes that would have stopped me from
> buying the car.

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In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:50:21 +0000, Stormin' Norman
> wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:22:02 -0400, micky >
>wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Su
>>
>>http://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-Chrysle...vip=true&rt=nc
>
>This is very simple to do. If you have Firefox, install two add-ons,
>"Noscript" and "DownThemAll". No Script will disable javascript on
>the page and downthemall allows you to download all media files of a
>specific type in one action.
>
>As a test, I just downloaded all 61 pictures of the car to my system.
>If you want to post an email address, I can send tem to you, as a zip,
>via a file transfer service, OR, if you have access to binary groups
>and know how to deal with binary files, I can upload the zip to a
>group such as alt.binaries.test.
>
>Let me know if you want them and how you would like to get them.

As you may have read, not using Complete, using the second choice, got
me the pictures, so thank you for the generous offer but I have them
now.

I was away all day yesterday, getting the car, so I haven't looked at
earlier subdirectories if there are any.

The car seems quite good. More in another post.

On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:30:22 -0400, micky >
wrote:

>In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:50:21 +0000, Stormin' Norman
> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:22:02 -0400, micky >
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Su
>>>
>>>http://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-Chrysle...vip=true&rt=nc
>>
>>This is very simple to do. If you have Firefox, install two add-ons,
>>"Noscript" and "DownThemAll". No Script will disable javascript on
>>the page and downthemall allows you to download all media files of a
>>specific type in one action.
>>
>>As a test, I just downloaded all 61 pictures of the car to my system.
>>If you want to post an email address, I can send tem to you, as a zip,
>>via a file transfer service, OR, if you have access to binary groups
>>and know how to deal with binary files, I can upload the zip to a
>>group such as alt.binaries.test.
>>
>>Let me know if you want them and how you would like to get them.
>
>As you may have read, not using Complete, using the second choice, got
>me the pictures, so thank you for the generous offer but I have them
>now.
>
>I was away all day yesterday, getting the car, so I haven't looked at
>earlier subdirectories if there are any.
>
>The car seems quite good. More in another post.


"not using Complete"?? "Using the second choice"?? I have no idea
what either statement means, sorry.

If you no longer need the pictures I will delete them.

In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:48:33 +0000, Stormin' Norman
> wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:30:22 -0400, micky >
>wrote:
>
>>In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:50:21 +0000, Stormin' Norman
> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:22:02 -0400, micky >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Su
>>>>
>>>>http://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-Chrysle...vip=true&rt=nc
>>>
>>>This is very simple to do. If you have Firefox, install two add-ons,
>>>"Noscript" and "DownThemAll". No Script will disable javascript on
>>>the page and downthemall allows you to download all media files of a
>>>specific type in one action.
>>>
>>>As a test, I just downloaded all 61 pictures of the car to my system.
>>>If you want to post an email address, I can send tem to you, as a zip,
>>>via a file transfer service, OR, if you have access to binary groups
>>>and know how to deal with binary files, I can upload the zip to a
>>>group such as alt.binaries.test.
>>>
>>>Let me know if you want them and how you would like to get them.
>>
>>As you may have read, not using Complete, using the second choice, got
>>me the pictures, so thank you for the generous offer but I have them
>>now.

I explain the terms I use in the next section, but first, I hate to say
this: I tried twice using Complete before I posted my question, and it
didnt' work either time, but now it seems to be working, exactly the
same as without complete, that is the text is all the same height.
>>
>>I was away all day yesterday, getting the car, so I haven't looked at
>>earlier subdirectories if there are any.
>>
>>The car seems quite good. More in another post.
>
>
>"not using Complete"?? "Using the second choice"?? I have no idea
>what either statement means, sorry.

It was in another post, in responsse to someone, althought conceivably
he had removed the ng you're reading and I didn't notice that and didn't
put it back. I was taught that it is impolite to remove a newsgroup
from the dist. list without saying so in the text, but when I pointed
that out, a couple people insisted it was okay to do that. I still
think it is rude, but I don't bring it up anymore.

In Firefox when you use Save Page As, there are 4 choices for Save as
Type, from top to bottom in the drop-down list:
Web Page Complete (*.htm,*.html);
Web Page, HTML Only (*.htm,*.html);
Text (*.txt,*.text),
All files (*.*)

I'm sure text won't work most of the time, but I havent' tested All
Files yet. Maybe that means the files are saved but not in a way that
the webpage can be redisplayed?

And I've been using the first one, because it sounds more.... complete.
Yet in this case HTML only saved the photos, but didn't save what makes
the text more stylized, which I thought was in the html. Instead all
the text came out the same size, though some was bold and a little was
red (but iiuc those first level modifications preceded html and don't
use html.)



>If you no longer need the pictures I will delete them.

Yeah, deleting them is fine. Thanks for the efforts.

In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:43:22 -0400, Dan Espen
> wrote:

>micky > writes:
>
>> In rec.autos.tech, on Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:46:50 -0500, Muggles
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>On 6/26/2017 5:34 PM, micky wrote:
>>>> I bought a car on ebay last Thursday, and his ad included ~60 pictures!,
>>>> so I wanted to save them, and using Firefox, I clicked on Save Page as,
>>>> which is supposed to save every little part of a webpage, and at least
>>>> once I've tried that and it worked.
>>>>
>>>> But this time I did it with the original listing and the one that shows
>>>> up after I bought it and it only has the top screeen or two. Even
>>>> though there were 57 pictures, the top left hand corner only had 12
>>>> pictures, but even those don't "work". The first one shows but I can't
>>>> get anything to show the others. The page is dead compared to a usual
>>>> ebay page where clicking on thigns makews things happen.
>>>>
>>>> I copied all the text as a text file, but does anyone know I can
>>>> download all the pictures, other than doing 57 screen shots?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is not so I can later complain to the seller. I understand the
>>>> meaning of ASIS. It's mostly because I'll never get around to taking
>>>> pictures and he's already done a good job. (with the exception of the
>>>> dash. There are only 2 or 3 pictures of that and it misses things I'm
>>>> interested in, but nothing could be there except maybe poisonous snakes
>>>> that would have stopped me from buying the car.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I use Fireshot (add-in) with Firefox that takes screen captures of
>>>entire webpages.
>>
>> Sounds perfect. I'm glad I asked. (Though I haven't tried it yet.)
>>
>> BTW,I don't think I mentioned it on either of these ngs but when I had
>> some satellite views in google maps and then save them with Save Page
>> As, when I brought them up later they were entirely black, and others on
>> the other group knew that this is what happens. (I haven't tried Save
>> Page As with map only.) I have to get up at 6 tomorrow but maybe
>> Fireshot will solve that problem too. (There are other ways around that
>> one, since I really only needed one screen's worth. More about this
>> later.)
>
>Of course Google Maps shows us the results of an interactive image
>painter. There is no image file to save.
>
>Print Screen should make a copy of the page that you can paste into
>any paint program.

Well, I'm learning.

In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 27 Jun 2017 04:52:42 -0400, Rusty
> wrote:

>On 06/26/2017 11:38 PM, micky wrote:
>> I'll try more tomorrow night if I'm not busy either admiring or
>> repairing my car.
>
>
>2004 Chrysler? Hope you're a good mechanic! Good luck!

Thank you.

So I took the train from Balt.to Philly on Tuesday, and a SEPTA train
half-way to Trenton (still in Philadephia), and the seller picked me up
from there.

The car looked just like in the pictures, including the slight
misalignment of the front and rear windows, after one opens and shuts
the door. This only matters if it makes more wind noise, but even if it
does, I think lowering the window a bit and putting it back up again
will get the door windows within the rubber gasket.

Also a small dent in the trunk lid which doesn't show in the picture,
even though that area is in the picture.

Also some small paint blemishes which you only see when you are less
than 10 feet away, and are still small.


More important, it shudders a little bit when slowing from 25 to 24,
whebn the transmission is downshifting. I always allow $2000 for
repairs to a new used car (but the last two I spent nothing in the first
two years and spent less than 1000 on repairs in the 7 and 6 years I had
them. I'm 70 and only drive about 5000 a year, and even when working, I
worked from home a lot..) OTOH, my 95 Lebaron's a Chrysler like this,
used to mini-shudder when going from 65 to 54 and when going from 6 to
5, iirc, and the only thing suggested was a whole new transmission. So
I did nothing and after a year, the noise went away.
The only more than trivial example in my life of something mechanical
getting better on its own.

Also the front windows sort of rattle when they first start going down,
but that is not serious.

And only speed 4 on the heater fan, but I already know that's the
resistor block, $10 on Amazon, ordered already.



On the good side, the spare tire is full-size, seems to be the original
and never used, because it has a sticker on it addressed to the new
owner of the car.

The ebay listing didn't even mention it having a radio, though every car
does and the picture showed it, but the radio is better than I expected,
since it has a cassette player and I still have cassettes. Plus it has
a CD changer. They say no one uses CD's but I'm not into downloading
etc. Too much work. Plus at Goodwill I bought most of a set of 38
CD's with music from the 50's and 60's and I haven't listened to them
yet.
The cassette works, which is pretty good after 14 years (On my
Lebarons I had to replace the rubber belt every 7 years.) and the CD
player will play one CD. I will later but for now I'm afraid to put in
more than one because in the 2000 Toyota I'm getting rid of, the cd
changer worked fine until 2014 but then started jamming. Twice I took
it apart and removed the CD it was all right for a few months, then
weeks and now it, for a few months it gave a message ErrCode2 but
then it stopped giving even that. Now it does nothing when I press the
CD button, and the indicators that show how many CDs are in it don't
show anymore either. I'm pretty sure I have CD's in it, so I'll have to
disassemble the radio and remove them before I sell the car. This time
I will lubricate the changer, which didn't seem like a good idea the
first two times.

Also good, a cigarette lighter in the dash and onther in the console.

Other bad things

Engine compartment so crowded I can't see the belts or the battery. I
hope I never have to fix anything.

A quart low on oil even though it had an oil change recently. The
sticker says I need another one in 2100 miles, so when would the
previous one have been, 3000 miles ago?? But only 77,000 miles so
maybe he just forgot to put in the last quart?

One rear seatbelt hidden behind seat, two of the other three twisted,
including the rear seat which I can't figure out how to make right, and
the driver's, which requires removing the seat molding to untwist even
though so far I can't figure out how the molding is attached.

The horn button is in a small area and hard to press, and the ad says
there is only one horn. Does that mean the other is broken, or did
they make cars with only one horn? I very rarely blow the horn but
when I do I'll like the button to be better.

Almost forgot this; Windshield washer bottle leaking and empty. It's
going to be a bear to remove it -- I'll practice at a junk yard -- but
at least it's the edge of the engine compartment. (Online instructions
include "Partially remove bumper fascia" Wow. Also maybe the wheel and
the fender liner!!! It might be easier to put a aqueeze bottle in the
glove compartment, like I did with starting ether one cold winter.

Compass works much of the time, but is off quite often, once sayin E for
a few seconds when I was going W! I might be able to recalibrate it,
when I get the owners manual, but if not, I have in the Toyota a
replacement rearview mirror with a good compass. (But good that the car
has a trip computer already. I won't have to hunt in junkyards.)

Black fabric covering sunvisors slightly tattered, but maybe can be
repaired noicely, or just removed. Black vinyl underneath.

Elastic holding top liner edges up, but eaay to replace. '88 Lebaron
used velcro to do this. I had to drill out the rivets holding separate
pieces of velcro, and I couldn't find replacments so I just used
stick-on, which worked amazingly well. But the long elastic bands are
a better design and will be easier to replace, at a fabric store.

Nothing in the rear-view mirror works, but maybe a fuse.



Other good things:

Pins and pin-receivers to guide the door into place when closing it, if
it ever sags, maybe because of Chrysler Lebaron's history of sagging
doors. Also good, these doors are bolted on, not welded, so if they
sag it will be for a different reason. The previous Lebaron a mechanic
welded the sagging door back to where it didn't sag anymore as long as I
had the car; took 35 minutes, charged me one hour's laber, which was
fine.

I was afraid because the dual overhaad cam chain is so long it would be
loud, especially compared to a belt like I've had before, and the Toyota
which is very quiet, but the Sebring seems quiet too, so far.

Electric trunk. After they stopped making American convertibles after
1976, when they resumed, they had forgotten a lot, and they would
stupidly put a mechanical remote trunk release in them. That meant if
you parked with the top down, someone could just climb over the door or
over the trunk, and get to the latch and open the trunk. I think I
converted one car, but the Toyota had no room for a direct cable,
solenoid to latch, so I had to bend the cable 90^ and then the solenoid
wasn't strong enough, and I didn't want a bigger solenoid. So finally
I have a factory electric release with remote.

(another mistake they made after 1983 was putting in prismatic
day/night mirrors in convertibles, instead of tinted rear-view mirrors.
With prismatic, when it's on Night and the top is down, every street
light etc. etc. appears in the mirror, moving as you drive down the
street. Now mirross on many cars dim electronically so that doesn't
happen anymore. .)

New fobs are only $11 and key blanks are only $8. They used to cost a
fortune; what happened?

Interior like new, except a tiny bit of seat stitching missing. .

In the cigarette port in the console, I put my finger in and it didn't
feel right. Eventually I found a penny in it, and eventually 7 pennies!
But now it works and it works when the car is not running, which I
prefer.


There are a lot more Sebrings in junkyards than there were Toyota
Solaras (never found one), so certain parts will, if I ever need any, be
easier to find and much cheeper. I had lots of complaints about the
Toyota.






And finally, a great looking car, gold with a black top, when nothing
they've sold in the last 10 years looks as good to me. And only $2850.
(Plus 60 to get to Philly, 22 for owners manual) I'm happy with it,
and even if it turns out to be a financial mistake, I will still on
average have done very well on used cars, so them's the breaks.



BTW, as to the radio, it wasn't listed in the ad, nor was the CD
changer, and he told me that EBay changed its software after 10 good
years, and now sometimes they don't list everything he sends in. But
get this, he said sometimes they list things he didn't say.
..