Are there any methods to find a picture that has been "hidden" on a forum? I tried a reverse image search to no avail. It is a particular image hidden in any possible post on the forum.

I will pay 100fg if it successfully leads to a find. Thanks.

what does "hidden" mean? just look at the html for the file extension

Sorry I should have been more specific.

It isn't technically hidden. It's hidden as in it was placed on some unknown topic by a user as a sort of game. Our job is to find what topic the image is in.

since d2jsp doesnt have its own forum search for nontrade forums, using google site search is your best bet.

search for something like:
site:d2jsp.org imagename

I tried this already also.

The forum is not d2jsp, by the way.

Yeah, not enough info. Depends on the board, depends on the format, depends on a lot of things you're not telling us.

But chances are, the short answer is "no".

This post was edited by irimi on Dec 13 2012 02:43pm

if you have a copy of the image, you could upload the image to google and try to find it that way.

If you are referring to reverse image search, I tried that.



The forum runs on phpBB.

This post was edited by Voyaging on Dec 13 2012 03:53pm

You could write a program which crawls through the whole forum by doing these steps:



Could take a huge amount of time, depending on how big the forum is. Also your IP could be banned due to flooding the server.
i think there is no other way of doing this than writing a program.
maybe you can check the user's personality, hobbies.. etc. if he/she's an admin they might have hidden it in a rules thread. check in which sub-forums they are active and search for it there.
check their latest topics/posts. maye if you are a programmer and you use my method you can check the crawled pages for a string like 'last edited by user at date-xx-xx' which would make it a lot easier.
apart from that -> too little information

heh i took a stab at it the other day, with more or less using that same idea, and yeah, I got IP banned