Image Max URL is a userscript/addon that finds larger images, based on URL patterns. MaxImageBot is a reddit bot that replies to posts if it finds a larger image.
It currently uses more than 3000 individual rules to replace URLs that are scaled down, back to the
For the obligatory round numbers, the git repository has now passed 4000 commits!
Onto the major new feature, this release extends the batch album downloading from 0.18.0 by allowing you to download the album using JDownloader, instead of downloading a zip file. It also supports autostarting the downloads, which means that the workflow for downloading an album can be reduced to simply:
Image Max URL now supports over 8000 websites, 11 months after 7000, weighing in at ~115,330 lines of code (~34,660 added since the 7000 website milestone).
This time, almost a third of all the newly added websites were contributions by users! Thank you very much to everyone who contributed!!
Changelog for 0.19.3: https://github.com/qsniyg/maxurl/blob/6cef3843ac566d95f0951b83132a03ab1fa57049/CHANGELOG.txt#L1
Download links:
While smaller than the last release (~1600 lines added, ~570 lines removed), this one now contains a feature I've been procrastinating implementing for even longer than turning this into a youtube-dl clone: Batch downloading!
In order to use it:
This will download all the photos in the gallery in their largest resol
Image Max URL is a userscript/addon that finds larger images, based on URL patterns. MaxImageBot is a reddit bot that replies to posts if it finds a larger image.
It currently uses more than 3000 individual rules to replace URLs that are scaled down, back to the original version (if possible).
For example, using Twitter:
By adding ?name=orig at the e
While not the most exciting release, there is now a generic video.js rule that has been added.
Video.js is probably the most commonly used video embedding library, which means that it should now support a much larger number of websites that embed HLS/DASH streams (the primary reason using the popup on a video element fails).
If you appreciate IMU, please consider donating. Any amount is highly appreciated! https://qsniyg.github.io/maxurl/donate.html
Changelog for 2026.2.0: https://github.com/qsniyg/maxurl/blob/951eb9dba49b3d2f623a0c377239646488ba5c92/CHANGELOG.txt#L1
Download links:
Another birthday release for IMU! Though this has likely been one of its quietest years , 2024 did still see ~600 new websites supported.
Perhaps now is as good a time as any to call for maintainers. The codebase is a bit daunting (read: likely one of the worst abominations you've ever laid your eyes on), but any help to maintain existing rules and support an ever growing list of website requests would be very much appreciated!
Changelog for 2024.12.0: https://github.com/qsniyg/maxurl/blob/f7fe51e398a10e5ee207f6bb39c469249fcc3bf3/CHANGELOG.txt#L1
Download links:
Just a little over a year after the 50k mark, the script has now doubled in size, weighing in at 100,192 lines of code. This is the largest codebase I've ever developed for any single project!
As written in the other post, this only includes the size of the userscript, which is almost entirely handwritten (the exception being ~5k lines of semi-automatically generated translations). While it can utilize 3rd-party libraries, they are not included in the userscript.
Changelog for 0.14.9: https://github.com/qsniyg/maxurl/blob/cf55d883fced23f96023b2c9195cc049afa0aa41/CHANGELOG.txt#L1
Edit: It has now been reinstated!
As the title says, the Firefox version of Image Max URL has been (temporarily?) taken down by Mozilla. I received an email from Mozilla explaining that the addon has been disabled due to the 0.19.2 update not passing the review. This did happen once in the past as well, but strangely this time they opted for making the entire addon unavailable (instead of only disabling the update).
I'm not sure if I will be able to reinstate it, but I will do what I can. In the meantime, if you wish to install or update IMU as an addon, I would highly recommend using a fork of Firefox that allows sideloading unsigned extensions (such as [Firefox's unbranded build](ht
Image Max URL is a userscript that finds larger images, based on URL patterns. MaxImageBot is a reddit bot that replies to posts if it finds a larger image.
It currently uses over a thousand rules to replace URLs that are scaled down, back to the original version (if possible).
For example, using Twitter:
By adding ?name=orig at the end, we get a much larger image:
Both the website and the userscript (latest git) now support this.
As usual, please avoid sending NSFW content.
This is the first stable release in well over a year (20 months). Image Max URL isn't dead, but progress is much slower.
Changelog for for 2023.2.0: https://github.com/qsniyg/maxurl/blob/c3c95c819a4f211fa1a0c75ae881847750d4f0c8/CHANGELOG.txt#L1
Download links:
Community links:
This is a relatively major release (~5690 lines added, ~1890 lines removed). While I try to release most versions weekly, this one took close to 3 weeks due to the amount of work and bugfixing required to implement its features.
The major new feature is that it now allows you to download HLS/DASH streams, which are used by many websites, such as YouTube (for higher resolutions), Instagram, and Dailymotion. While downloading these streams can also be achieved through tools such as youtube-dl or ffmpeg [1], now no external tool is needed, so it can become a one-step process!
Put another way: A script that was originally intended to redirect images to their larger versions using simple regex
