http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to

http://jpg.to

by folkster • 15 years ago

351 123 15 years ago

jpg.to

folkster30• 15 years ago

e.g. apple.jpg.to

leak• 15 years ago

I typed my name "dani" and it turns out I'm a hot chic! I knew it!

blhack• 15 years ago

Dani is also shorthand for Daniela.

tikhonj• 15 years ago

Very simple and very amusing. Or maybe I'm just easily entertained. It got my gravatar picture when I entered my full name, which was cool.

hn.jpg.to, on the other hand, is probably not related to hacker news :)

folkster30• 15 years ago

Thanks. I am planning to add functions to let users upload and vote for the keywords.jpg.to urls so more relevant results will show up.

ck2• 15 years ago

This is the "I'm feeling lucky" of google images eh?

http://gigawatt.jpg.to/

folkster30• 15 years ago

Yes, it works kind of like it.

DanielRibeiro• 15 years ago

Author says it is powered by google images. Which is ironic:

http://bing.jpg.to/ (what you'd expect)

http://google.jpg.to/ (not what you'd expect)

folkster30• 15 years ago

Yes, that's weird.. btw, I just manually patched this.

seppo0010• 15 years ago

with google.jpg.to I was taken to http://www.google.com/intl/en_com/images/srpr/logo3w.png , pretty much what I was expecting.

kgermino• 15 years ago

Very cool.

Top result in Google Images? Looks like it anyway.

Thanks for giving me something to pay with while waiting on the slowest server in the world at work :)

folkster30• 15 years ago

Good guess and you are right. :)

kristopolous• 15 years ago

I started with http://hello.jpg.to/ and was delighted by the results, thinking that the web app translated my phrase into a variety of languages and then made a stylish motif. Eagerly, I typed in http://goodbye.jpg.to/ to see, again, what looked like a totally custom image based on random text that I put in. I have to admit, I found this to be http://totallyawesome.jpg.to/ at this point, pressing F5 and hoping for other stylized generations.

After not seeing any, I decided to just try my name ... and found a football player.

alpb• 15 years ago

I'd rather prefer it to directly stream the image, not an <img src='...'/> to somewhere else. This version is not useful for anybody.

folkster30• 15 years ago

Good observation. But if you embed it on webpage (in which refer header is sent) it would turn into real image file, which means it WORKS when you include it in forum, blogs, etc. :)

TeMPOraL2• 15 years ago

Refer header is not a good way to distinguish between embedded images and images accessed directly by user. AFAIK that header will have the same value both when you load an embedded image and when you click on a direct link to the image.

I did a little bit of research about it few years ago; the summary can be seen here:

http://temporal.pr0.pl/devblog/2009/09/14/eksperyment-podsum... (pl_PL)

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js... (en_US)

Basically, I was able to distinguish between embedded and directly accessed images by analyzing the content of Accept header. It wasn't perfect (it didn't work for Opera), but I think it could be good enough to do something useful with it.

kloncks3• 15 years ago

Not working for me? I keep getting this: Sorry, image not found. Please try other keywords.

folkster30• 15 years ago

Which keyword did you type? Try using shorter words like http://stevejobs.jpg.to

kloncks3• 15 years ago

The suggested links. http://apple.jpg.to doesn't work for me.

garethsprice• 15 years ago

Cute. Needs a method to return the URL as a 301 redirect so it could be used as a placeholder image. This could be in the image filename.

For example: http://kittens.jpg.to/301.jpg

Another feature could be to return a random result for that image search.

For example: http://ass.jpg.to/random.jpg

folkster30• 15 years ago

It's a good idea. I'm going to implement similar functions soon. Stay tuned :)

templaedhel• 15 years ago

The random functionality in conjunction with an ability to specify crop size would make this my defacto placeholder site.

Being able to choose what I want for my placeholder would be extremely useful.

http://food.jpg.to/random300x500.jpg

keltex• 15 years ago

If you like kittens, placekitten does that:

http://placekitten.com/

revorad• 15 years ago

This is nice. It will be more fun if you show a different image on each reload.

folkster30• 15 years ago

Good idea!

justinxreese• 15 years ago

No, please don't change it that way! The best use case for this is sharing images quickly. If I can't trust that my http://homer%20simpson.jpg.to/ is going to be the same one loaded by my friend, then I won't share it with my friend. This could be pretty handy in it's current state.

ff0066mote• 15 years ago

http://ycombinator.jpg.to/

grobo• 15 years ago

ha..i like it. it just searches the internet for images with that search term.

pluies• 15 years ago

That's awesome :)

And it's not even limited to jpg, cf. http://drumroll.jpg.to/

Neodudeman• 15 years ago

I think http://ethan.jpg.to/ is my favorite.

tathagatadg• 15 years ago

anybody tried "hahahah" or "lala"? ... those were the first two I tried and it gave a totally wrong impression of what the service is all about :D

_gd3l2• 15 years ago

I like this a lot. Placehold.it features would be nice, too. so like, if I wanted just a picture of Bruce Willis: http://bruce_wilis.jpg.to/

But then if I needed a 500x500 picture of Bruce Willis, because who doesn't, I could go to http://bruce_wilis.jpg.to/500x500

Fun little app. Nice work.

folkster30• 15 years ago

Nice suggestion! Seems like many people would like modifiers behind the url. That's what I want to implement soon.

_gd3l2• 15 years ago

Cool. It'd definitely spice up placeholder images when designing a website...

hammock• 15 years ago

Note that you can put in spaces by using dots or %2b

http://large.gorilla.eating.a.taco.jpg.to/

http://baby%2belephant.jpg.to/

folkster30• 15 years ago

UTF8 characters are supported too! e.g. http://ハッカー.jpg.to (ハッカー means hacker in japanese, I found it from google translate)

premchai21• 15 years ago

Note that that particular word is a katakana phonetic import from English; in romaji that reads "hakkaa". So while that works as an example of multilingual character support, it may not be the best example for a foreign word per se. :-)

civilian• 15 years ago

http://pookie.jpg.to/ Bahahaha

suyash• 15 years ago

This is also very handy that I plan to use: http://www.sencha.com/learn/how-to-use-src-sencha-io/

MetalMASK2• 15 years ago

It is the first image result on google image search. The previous comments on different keywords verified this. To amaze yourself, try "sex" and "male"

behind-the-scene technical aspect are not difficult to realize (either google image API, which is deprecated, or parse the result of http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=h... and get the first image url after a predefined string anchor, say <span class=rg_ctlv>), but the idea to simplify input and output is brilliant.

To deal with not-so-good image search result: since google image search is presenting the result in a thumbnail group, it might be worthwhile to look into their ranking scheme for the result. It might be that the first one (on the top left) is not the most relevant result. It won't shock me if google ranked the relevance of result from center to peripheral. In the end that's how we look at a pile of images--we tend to start from the middle. Try a few examples, from the ones I tried the middle row middle column image is much more relevant than the top left result.

just my two cents.

folkster30• 15 years ago

Very nice observation!

MetalMASK2• 15 years ago

I take that since your website didn't state any call limit, you must be using the second method (parsing google image result page).

Give user option to get more photo (in ways like: /1, /2) as the index of result page. Or even randomize the result (provide an option to random deliver the result, so same call doesn't result in the same image) might serve the user good. lots of ideas.

evolution• 15 years ago

is it allowed by google to parse search result page?

wahwah• 15 years ago

http://man.jpg.to/ lol

johnbatch• 15 years ago

getting an error on http://facebook.jpg.to/

aawc5• 15 years ago

not anymore. he probably pathced this one too.

dicroce• 15 years ago

hot.jpg.to

korussian2• 15 years ago

I teach EFL, and this would be fantastically useful in class for matching up vocab with pictures on the fly.

The only issue is: I need a much larger rez image to put up on the big projector. Since this is doing Google Image Search... any chance for a:

http://keyword.jpg.to/large

http://keyword.jpg.to/medium

[plus]

http://keyword.jpg.to/photo

http://keyword.jpg.to/clipart

[plus]

http://keyword.jpg.to/red

http://keyword.jpg.to/green

http://keyword.jpg.to/white

folkster30• 15 years ago

Another good suggestion. I would definitely implement something exact or very similar to this if the api allows. Stay tuned :)

philfreo• 15 years ago

Quizlet.com is good for this and will autosearch Flickr for a picture matching each word when you create flashcards.

korussian2• 15 years ago

Quizlet is awesome, but the use-case for this new tool could be:

a) mentioning new vocab off-the-cuff (or in response to a question) in class and immediately showing a picture of it

b) students trying to remember a word and me showing them pictures of words they are guessing until they see the right thing

c) Us making up sample sentences on-the-fly and using a background picture as an impromptu slide: "Darth Vader is hungry. He could make a sandwich. He may toast some broad. He might eat it later": http://darth.vader.bread.jpg.to/

digitalboss• 15 years ago

Good ideas.

Works like expected: http://fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu.jpg.to

Reddit will have a field day with this.

naner• 15 years ago

The only issue is: I need a much larger rez image to put up on the big projector.

There doesn't appear to be any size checking at all. I got a doozy:

http://senator.jpg.to/

aawc5• 15 years ago

I see changes coming in as I try more things. Good job folkster!

tzs• 15 years ago

http://pornography.jpg.to/

WTF!?

aawc5• 15 years ago

hahahahaha

pnmahoney• 15 years ago

http://dumbsluts.jpg.to/ goes to sarah palin

wicknicks• 15 years ago

Very cool stuff. Interesting progression:

http://111111.jpg.to/ (I was hoping to get something related to November/11/2011 here).

solokumba• 15 years ago

http://100.jpg.to

Nice.

zephyrfalcon• 15 years ago

Yes, and: http://300.jpg.to/ :)

dschoon• 15 years ago

Huh. http://to.jpg.jpg.to/

Calamitous• 15 years ago

Very, very nice. :)

codejoust• 15 years ago

Winning: http://chattanooga.jpg.to/ It works pretty well, although there are some oddball results.

dylangs1030• 15 years ago

I like the idea, and it works. Here's two constructive concerns:

1. Can you make this faster to type than a browser extension that searches from the address bar (or in Chrome's case, omnibox)?

2. How do you account for false positives, like a picture that doesn't match the word?

folkster30• 15 years ago

1. keyword.jpg.to is the most intuitive and easy to type domain I can think of at the moment. If you got a better idea please tell me :) 2. I planned to allow image upload and voting to select the best image that match the word. I believe this method can give better result in the long term.

rewiter2011• 15 years ago

looks like a catchall apache url rewrite rule with some rewriting voodoo to corresponding google image hits, pretty lame imho

also the dns is not setup corectly to handle spaces in domains mentioned here

folkster30• 15 years ago

It seems whitespace is not allowed in subdomain. I need to research further to confirm it.

speedemin• 15 years ago

http://crazy.jpg.to/ doesn't work for some reason.

Amaan• 15 years ago

Probably because it's a gif file.

mkopinsky• 15 years ago

Because the image comes back with a 403 Forbidden.

sjwright• 15 years ago

http://fat-cats.jpg.to/

http://y-combinator.jpg.to/

http://hacker-news.jpg.to/

http://anal.jpg.to/

guscost• 15 years ago

Unbelievably, you probably want to turn off SafeSearch before letting kids explore the site...

http://vagina.jpg.to/

keithgibson• 15 years ago

http://zuckerberg.jpg.to/

http://winkelvoss.jpg.to/

christos• 15 years ago

Is this using Google Image Search? Isn't it against the terms of use to access it from an interface other than Googles?

folkster30• 15 years ago

It's from google's public image search api :)

jrockway• 15 years ago

http://toonces.jpg.to/ works as expected.

wallflower• 15 years ago

Toonces the driving cat! Good SNL days..

sanxiyn• 15 years ago

Some favorites: http://failwhale.jpg.to/ http://octocat.jpg.to/

diamondhead• 15 years ago

Is there any way to flag a photo? I just made a search for a dog type and found an inappropriate photo unfortunately...

folkster30• 15 years ago

I will implement upload, voting and flagging features soon, thanks for your suggestion!

Nican• 15 years ago

jpg.to does not seem to be a complete metric space. The Cauchy sequence of Pi does seem to converge to Pi. http://jpg.to/ http://3.jpg.to/ http://3.1.jpg.to/ http://3.14.jpg.to/ http://3.141.jpg.to/ http://3.1415.jpg.to/ http://3.14159.jpg.to/ http://3.141592.jpg.to/ http://3.14159265.jpg.to/ http://3.141592653.jpg.to/ http://3.1415926535.jpg.to/ The number of references to pi seems to decrease as the precision increases.

dhs• 15 years ago

Seems to me that the precision is greatest at http://3.14.jpg.to/, which has 1 reference.

awlo• 15 years ago

Fun! It would be nice if the source of the image was given, so credit can be given to the author, if possible.

folkster30• 15 years ago

Good suggestion! I think I would include the sources on voting page when it is made.

madiator• 15 years ago

I thought this was pretty cool and so shared the link with my friend, who asked me - 'so whats the point?'. And then I was like http://notsure.jpg.to

folkster30• 15 years ago

I am also thinking about the possibilities of the service. Do you have any idea? :)

liedra• 15 years ago

This is a cute service but doesn't handle images that are 404 :( Perhaps it should test for 500 status before displaying?

folkster30• 15 years ago

I am trying to make the service more reliable. Thanks for your opinion :)

henshinger• 15 years ago

http://meme.jpg.to/(I don't have any idea what this meme is.) Also, I want to see the source code. I think it uses the I'm Feeling Lucky page of Google Image API, but I'm a noob, so it would be nice if I could have an idea of how you made that site.

folkster30• 15 years ago

Basically, the idea is to take the subdomain of the url as keyword and search it through Google's image search api and return the 1st result.

program• 15 years ago

This is a little bookmarklet for you. Select some text in a page then run it. It will open a new window {selected text}.jpg.to.

   javascript:(function(){var A='';if(window.getSelection) A=window.getSelection().toString();else if(document.getSelection) A=document.getSelection().toString();else if(document.selection) A=document.selection.createRange().text;A=A.replace(/\s+/,'-');if(A===''||!/^[a-z0-9_\-]+$/i.test(A))A='try-again';window.open('http://'+encodeURIComponent(A.toLowerCase())+'.jpg.to');}());

not tested at all.

folkster30• 15 years ago

Thanks so much for your work. Just added it to my browser :)

edd3• 15 years ago

As 'cute' as this is please find a different API to use or at least find a way to attribute where you are _stealing_ the images from and ensure that the owners of the images are happy with you using the images.

Just because an image is on the internet does not mean you can reproduce it. I ran a couple of words I knew return copyrighted images and sure enough they come up.

godDLL• 15 years ago

Like this http://spot.jpg.to/ ?

folkster30• 15 years ago

Very true. I planned to introduce a page for every image to attribute the source in the near future. And I would delete them upon the owner's request. (just like youtube video)

edd3• 15 years ago

If you are not going to validate that you have the rights to display the image the minimum thing you can do is add attribution to every page the image is displayed. Not a separate page.

newman3142• 15 years ago

I'm sorry but this is not good enough. You should try to do better than "what Youtube does".

Delete upon owner request (a la DMCA) is a legal maneuver. You should be able to parse out if an image is licensed as Creative Commons or public domain and show only those pictures. Else assume all rights reserved.

Not to pick on your project but it's time that people try to do better than take the easiest path of show all images (without attribution) because it was the most convenient thing to do.

(If you are going to do the delete on owner request thing, at least consider providing an immediate link to delete without 1) have to mail a paper request in, 2) having to sign in or 3) some other onerous route to delete)

Zirro• 15 years ago

I'm going to be "that" guy this time and tell you that the IMG-element is a single tag, and should be used without a "</img>" at the end :)

Other than that, I'm liking this and looking forward to the extra parameters.

folkster30• 15 years ago

Thanks for reminding and I have corrected the tag immediately:)

Wazzup12• 15 years ago

Imsy (www.imsy.com) offers this same feature in a slightly different way. It lets you send the image as an attachment in iMessage

mikeflynn• 15 years ago

Cool idea. I immediately tried "boobs" and was not disappointed.

ThePinion• 15 years ago

I wrote my first and last name (no spaces) and it showed a picture of my cat. I was thoroughly pleased :)

gumba• 15 years ago

Duqu author caught red handed. http://duqu.jpg.to/

fsantagonza2• 15 years ago

sun

fsantagonza2• 15 years ago

http://sun.jpg.to

http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to

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