I've tried hypeScraper, but it doesn't seem to do what I need

What is wrong with this plugin?

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hypeScraper creates clickable previews of URLs, but I don't think it extracts and saves images or page elements from a user-provided URL .  If I am wrong, and it does do this, please help me understand how.  I've spent a lot of time trying on my own.  Otherwise, is there another plugin option?

For example:  If a user provides the URL: 

https://www.menards.com/main/heating-cooling/indoor-air-quality/air-purifiers-accessories/pro-breeze-5-in-1-true-hepa-air-purifier/pb-p01-us/p-1642874271117117-c-5614.htm,

I want to extract and save:

$title  = "Pro Breeze 5-in-1 True HEPA Air Purifier"
$image1 = "https://sp.menardc.com/main/items/media/ONERE001/ProductMedium/Image_1.jpg"
$image2 = "https://sp.menardc.com/main/items/media/ONERE001/ProductMedium/Image_2.jpg"
$image3 = "https://sp.menardc.com/main/items/media/ONERE001/ProductMedium/Image_3.jpg"
$image4 = "https://sp.menardc.com/main/items/media/ONERE001/ProductMedium/Image_4.jpg"
$image5 = "https://sp.menardc.com/main/items/media/ONERE001/ProductMedium/Image_5.jpg"
$description ="The Pro Breeze 5-in-1 Air Purifier ... for rooms up to 500 sq.ft - Touch-button controls"

Hmm.

I'm not sure what you described hypeScraper doesn't makes.

Maybe you have a problem with cookies, user agents, etc. - all the things that make scraping painless.
This is what proxies are for.

Thanks, Nikolai.  I looked at hypeScraper further and found a sparsely-documented 'cache' feature that might work,  Unfortunately, I can't understand how to get to work.  Can you, or anyone else, offer more guidance?  The author, Ismayil Khayredinov, is not available to help. 

Oh, look, I am still alive. Came over to check what 5.0 is all about and it's crazy that so many years later people still find my plugins useful.
As far as I remember the plugin was based on https://github.com/hypeJunction/http-parser. Not sure if you want to download the images or just set them as metadata, but I am sure you can hook into some part of the process (sorry, no recollection of how the code works)

@ihayredinov

it's crazy that so many years later people still find my plugins useful

Your plugins will always be useful ;)

@ihayredinov

I'm sure many here happy to see you alive :)

@ihayredinov

I'm sure many here happy to see you alive :)

@ihayredinov

I'm sure many here are happy to see you alive :)

Ismayil (@ihayredinov),
So good to hear you're still alive.  I didn't think I'd ever have a chance to say how grateful I am for your work those many years ago.  I'm still using several, including, now, hypeScraper.  I convinced it to do what I needed, for the most part, but am still bedeviled by its difficulty scraping pages from several different domains.  Here's an example:  "Parser Error for HEAD request (https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/onetouch-ultra-2-blood-glucose-meter-kit/ID=300400575-product): cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 5000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received (see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html)" because "filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL))" returns false.  If you have an inspiration for where to look for a solution, I'd be incredibly grateful.

Sincerely,

 - Scott (@C0Rrupter)