How can I extract images from a site that I'm linking to?

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Published on 2010-03-28T00:55:01Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 1:03 UTC
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If you're familiar with Reddit, you'll know how all of their posts containing pictures get a small thumbnail preview beside the title of the submission. How does Reddit go about doing that? Does it just check to see if the link ends with .jpg, .png, .bmp, etc?

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