Quick and dirty script to download thumbnail and fullsize images from RSS feed. The RSS feed can be remote, but this was a one-off I needed to throw together, so I just downloaded the RSS feed to my local drive.

rss_img_ripper.php

<?php
$feed = 'recent.rss';
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents($feed));
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('media', $feed);
$images = $xml->xpath('/rss/channel/item/media:content/@url');

foreach ( $xml->channel->item as $item ) {

	$namespaces = $item->getNameSpaces(true);
	$media = $item->children($namespaces['media']);	
	
	if ($media->thumbnail->count() > 0) {
		$thumb_url = $media->thumbnail->attributes()->url;
		$thumb = file_get_contents($thumb_url);
		file_put_contents('thumbs/'.basename($thumb_url),$thumb);	
	}
	
	if ($media->content->count() > 0) {
		$img_url = $media->content->attributes()->url;	
		$img = file_get_contents($img_url);
		file_put_contents('full/'.basename($img_url),$img);	
	}
	
}