Import to iPhoto results in empty Album

Question

I am trying to follow the instructions on a "MacBreak" video to build a workflow that downloads the linked URL photos off a web thumbnail page. I have compared it to what the video shows and it is identical:
1. Get Current page from Safari
2. Get Image URLs from webpage
3. Download URLs
4. Import photos into iPhoto (New Album) (Delete originals) (Show entire action)
The only problem is, all I wind up with is an empty folder! No errors or anything - just no pictures. HELP!! (Please.)

Answer 1

Sounds like it is working in a way, but not the way you expected. When it gets images, it gets all of the images which may include buttons and advertisements and so forth. That's because those are images, too.
Since you have different websites, you should make a separate workflow for each. For each workflow, add Safari's action "Filter URLs" and set one or more conditions to match just the URLs you want. This action should be placed after the action you use to get the URLs, such as after "Get Image URLs form Webpage" or after "Get Link URLs from Webpages".
You'll need to view the URLs you want so you can get an idea of what they have in common to filter them from the ones you don't want. You can do this in Safari by hovering you mouse cursor over the links and viewing the status bar at the bottom of the window. Safari's "View" menu has an option to "Show Status Bar".
If instead you want the images on the page itself, then you can either view the source (check the "View" menu again) for the URLs, or right-click (or Control-click) and choose to open the image in a new window or tab. Though, if the image is also a link and want that image but not the linked image, then you'll probably need to view the source.
Once you figured out the pattern of how the images are named or located, then you can set up the proper filter to gather only them. Consider matching the path or perhaps part of the names. Automator's action "View Results" will be very helpful with this, and you'll want to just view the results without doing anything else in the workflow after it until you get precisely what you want. You can disable the other actions in the workflow after the "View Results" action by clicking on each action's number in the workflow, or delete the other actions after it for now, or just create a new workflow.
As you can tell, because of the complexity of determining what links you want and what it is you are trying to download, such inconsistency pretty much requires a separate workflow for each website, and perhaps each page on a given website if the pages aren't consistent. However, it's really just the filtering action that will be the most time consuming to set up. Everything else just flows.
I have a feeling the images from the .Mac site are probably going to be easier to obtain than from the random page layouts of the MySpace site. That's partly because I remember the .Mac webpages being used in an example for this type of workflow. But if you aren't trying to make a workflow that'll work with just any MySpace page, then you'll probably have easier success focusing on just one MySpace page per workflow.
I've had wonderful success with this type of workflow so I know something like this will work. Recently, I quickly created a workflow for downloading all of the PDF maps of the local bus routes from a page listing the links to the PDFs. Admittedly, the filter on that was quite simple since I wanted all URL links leading to a PDF. Once I had them, I didn't bother saving the workflow, particularly since I can quickly build another several months later when I want to do it again.