How to load all the images from one of my folder into my web page, using Jquery/Javascript

Question

I have a folder named \"images\" in the same directory as my .js file. I want to load all the images from \"images\" folder into my html page using Jquery/Javascript.

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Answer 1

Using Chrome, searching for the images files in links (as proposed previously) didn't work as it is generating something like:

(...) i18nTemplate.process(document, loadTimeData);

Maybe the most reliable way is to do something like this:

var folder = "img/";

$.ajax({
    url : folder,
    success: function (data) {
        var patt1 = /"([^"]*\.(jpe?g|png|gif))"/gi;     // extract "*.jpeg" or "*.jpg" or "*.png" or "*.gif"
        var result = data.match(patt1);
        result = result.map(function(el) { return el.replace(/"/g, ""); });     // remove double quotes (") surrounding filename+extension // TODO: do this at regex!

        var uniqueNames = [];                               // this array will help to remove duplicate images
        $.each(result, function(i, el){
            var el_url_encoded = encodeURIComponent(el);    // avoid images with same name but converted to URL encoded
            console.log("under analysis: " + el);
            if($.inArray(el, uniqueNames) === -1  &&  $.inArray(el_url_encoded, uniqueNames) === -1){
                console.log("adding " + el_url_encoded);
                uniqueNames.push(el_url_encoded);
                $("#slider").append( "" );      // finaly add to HTML
            } else{   console.log(el_url_encoded + " already in!"); }
        });
    },
    error: function(xhr, textStatus, err) {
       alert('Error: here we go...');
       alert(textStatus);
       alert(err);
       alert("readyState: "+xhr.readyState+"\n xhrStatus: "+xhr.status);
       alert("responseText: "+xhr.responseText);
   }
});