How to change URL of image you want to display

[UpsideDownRide]

So my problem is this - I want to display thumbnail from Flickr feed. However instead of displaying small (75x75) image I want to display medium size one.

Basically instead of

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5188/5649325427_5941088f81_s.jpg

I want to display

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5188/5649325427_5941088f81_m.jpg

I'm new to RainMeter and am no programmer at all so I'm a little bit at loss here of what I can do to achieve this. I tried substitute but that doesn't work - probably cause with download=1 string already points to file location on disk. It's fine when I'm just parsing it without download - this gives me the right URL but now how to use that string to get the actual image I want?

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=2
BackgroundMargins=5,5,5,5
SolidColor=255,255,255,100
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Metadata]
Name=
Config=
Tags=
Preview=
Variant=

[RSS]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
URL=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=71917374@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200
RegExp="(?siU)<link>.+</link>.*<media:thumbnail url=\"(.+)\""
;Substitute="_s.jpg":"_m.jpg" - This is commented out as it's not a solution. Left it to give you guys idea what I want to achieve :)
UpdateRate=1000
Download=1
StringIndex=1
FinishAction=!RainmeterRedraw
Debug=1

[Image1]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=RSS
X=5
Y=5
W=240
PreserveAspectRatio=1
StringAlign=Center

Will be grateful for any and all help

[UpsideDownRide]

No one? The only thing I have thought of so far is to process this with a LUA script. I hope though I am missing a simpler solution

[smurfier]

Well, I'm not very good with webparser but you could try...

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=2
BackgroundMargins=5,5,5,5
SolidColor=255,255,255,100
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Metadata]
Name=
Config=
Tags=
Preview=
Variant=

[RSS]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
URL=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=71917374@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200
RegExp="(?siU)<link>.+</link>.*<media:thumbnail url=\"(.+)\""
Substitute="_s.jpg":"_m.jpg"
UpdateRate=1000
StringIndex=1
Debug=1

[RSS2]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
URL=[RSS]
Download=1
FinishAction=!RainmeterRedraw

[Image1]
Meter=Image
MeasureName=RSS2
X=5
Y=5
W=240
PreserveAspectRatio=1
;StringAlign=Center (Doesn't do anything on an Image meter)

[Scolex]

Assuming you just want to display the first pic on the page this works.
The pics on the page are already *_m.jpg
Not sure if you are aware of this but you UpdateRate is 16 minutes and 40 seconds
UpdateRate is multiple of base rate from
[Rainmeter]
Update=*
1000 just seems like an odd number for UpdateRate so I thought you may not be aware.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
BackgroundMode=2
BackgroundMargins=5,5,5,5
SolidColor=255,255,255,100
DynamicWindowSize=1

[Metadata]
Name=
Config=
Tags=
Preview=
Variant=

[RSS]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
URL=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=71917374@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200
RegExp="(?siU)<pubdate>.*quot;><img src="(.*)""
UpdateRate=1000
Download=1
StringIndex=1
FinishAction=!RainmeterRedraw
Debug=1

[Image]
Meter=IMAGE
MeasureName=RSS
X=5
Y=5
W=240
PreserveAspectRatio=1
Antialias=1
DynamicVariables=1

[UpsideDownRide]

Ok this is weird - just yesterday when I was trying to work this out thumbnails in feed were in _s 75x75 format. This kinda solves my problem Yeah I'm actually aware on update thing - did just copy paste parts of code from others and that's why the update interval doesn't make much sense - didn't get to tweaking it bit. Thanks for pointing this out though

Smurfier - Yeah that would be it Somehow I didn't realize that without RegEx WebParser won't parse but just get the URL point it to ) Oh well started on RainMeter just yesterday - lots to learn I guess

Thanks for the help guys! Much appreciated!