Can I use Basil.js to get images from a URL? - adobe-indesign

Question

I am a novice user at ExtendScript, Basil.js & Javascript.
After seeing the project http://basiljs.ch/gallery/ending-the-depression-through-amazon/ I wondered if it is possible to simply get the Basil.js Script/ Extendscript/Indesign to grab images from a webpage and insert it directly into a indesign document.
I am a beginner so if someone had a complete script, from directory, functions... with example url, import, save, place.... ?
This is in the hope that I could simply put an address into the script and it would harvest all images on the webpage and put them into a indesign document?
I tried their example http://basiljs.ch/tutorials/getting-images-from-urls/
but when I copy that and run it in extend script it is just searching my computer...
UPDATE*
#includepath "~/Documents/;%USERPROFILE%Documents";
#include "basil/basil.js";
function draw() {
var url = "https://raw.github.com/basiljs/basil.js/master/lib/basil.png";
// download the url to a default location, filename according to url:
// -> "the project folder" + data/download/basil.png
//b.download(url);
// download url to a specific location in the project folder:
// -> "the project folder" + data/download_images_files/basil_logo.png
// b.download(url, "download_images_files/basil_logo.png");
// download url to a specific location e.g. to your desktop
// -> ~/Desktop/basil_logo.png
var newFile = new File("~/Desktop/basil_logo.png");
b.download(url, newFile);
}
b.go();
... It finds in Error in Basil's Core.js #
var runDrawOnce = function() {
app.doScript(function() {
if (typeof glob.draw === 'function') {
glob.draw();
}
}, ScriptLanguage.javascript, undef, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT);
};
Console says...
Using basil.js 1.08 ...
sh ~/Documents/basiljs/bundle/lib/download.sh /Users/jamestk/Desktop (Address here, I don't have the sufficient reputation on stack overflow)
Basil.js Error -> b.shellExecute(): Error: sh: /Users/jamestk/Documents/basiljs/bundle/lib/download.sh: No such file or directory

Answer 1

The easiest way would probably be to us the b.shellExecute(cmd) command to run a shell script that downloads your images.
You could use wget from shell to download all images from an url, see this question: How do I use Wget to download all Images into a single Folder
You should make sure then to save the images in the documents data directory. After that, you could get all images by using the Folder object's getFiles() method:
var myImagesArray = Folder('~/path/to/my/folder').getFiles();
Finally you could use that array in a loop to place all the images into your document.