Save High-Res r/EarthPorn Images Into a Wallpaper Folder

Scrolling through r/EarthPorn's top posts of the year is the best way to find wallpapers. Each image is a potential new background for your multi-monitor setup. The problem is that saving them one by one takes forever. Right-click, Save Image As, pick a folder, rename, repeat. After ten images you are bored. After twenty your wrist hurts. You give up with a folder that has maybe twelve files, most of them not even 1920 pixels wide.

This is a specific pain: you want a batch of high-resolution wallpapers, but the manual workflow is so tedious that you never actually build the collection you want. You end up using the same five wallpapers for months because the effort to refresh them is too high.

The shape of the solution is simple. Open the subreddit's top posts from the past year, scroll until you have loaded at least 50 images, then use Bulk Image Downloader to grab every image that is at least 1920 pixels wide and save them all into one folder. The extension detects lazy-loaded images, filters by minimum dimensions, and lets you rename everything in one pattern. You end up with a folder full of wallpapers ready for your OS rotation.

Step by step

1. Open r/EarthPorn/top/?t=year in your browser. This loads the best landscape photos from the last twelve months.
2. Scroll down until you see at least 50 posts. Reddit lazy-loads images as you scroll, so keep going until the page shows a good batch. Scrolling to the bottom of the first few pages is enough.
3. Click the Bulk Image Downloader icon in your browser toolbar. The extension scans the page and detects every image, including those that loaded after you scrolled.
4. Set the minimum width filter to 1920 pixels. This removes all thumbnails and low-res previews. Only images wide enough for a wallpaper will remain.
5. Set the file type filter to JPG and PNG. These are the formats Reddit uses for high-res photos. Exclude GIF and WebP if you want.
6. Check the preview list. Bulk Image Downloader shows every image that passed the filters. Confirm you see mostly large landscape photos. If you see small icons or profile pictures, adjust the minimum width filter higher.
7. Choose a download folder on your computer. Create a new folder called /wallpapers/ or pick an existing one.
8. Set the rename pattern to {hostname}-{n}.jpg. This will name files like preview-redd-it-1.jpg, preview-redd-it-2.jpg, and so on. Sequential numbering keeps them sorted.
9. Enable the option to save into folders by source page. If you plan to grab images from multiple subreddits, this keeps each batch separate. For a single run, you can skip this.
10. Click Download. Bulk Image Downloader saves every filtered image to your /wallpapers/ folder. In a few seconds you have 50 high-res wallpapers ready to use.

Why this works better than manual saving

Manually saving each image means you have to inspect every thumbnail, decide if it is high enough resolution, right-click, choose a folder, and rename the file. For 50 images that is 200 clicks and about 15 minutes of repetitive work. You will also miss images that are wider than they appear in the thumbnail because Reddit compresses previews. Bulk Image Downloader reads the actual image dimensions from the page source, so it filters accurately.

Another alternative is using Reddit's API or a script. That requires technical setup, authentication, and handling rate limits. Bulk Image Downloader works directly in the browser on the page you are already looking at. No coding, no tokens, no command line.

Browser extensions that claim to download all images often grab every thumbnail and icon on the page, including the Reddit logo and profile avatars. Bulk Image Downloader's filter by minimum width and file type removes all of those automatically. You get only the wallpapers you came for.

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