ImageScraper 📃

A high performance, easy to use, multithreaded command line tool which downloads images from the given webpage.

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Demo

Click here to see it in action!

Download

tar file:

Grab the latest stable build from - Pip: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ImageScraper

pip install (recommended):

You can also download using pip:

$ pip install ImageScraper

Dependencies

Note that ImageScraper depends on lxml, requests, setproctitle, and future. If you run into problems in the compilation of lxml through pip, install the libxml2-dev and libxslt-dev packages on your system.

Usage

$ image-scraper [OPTIONS] URL

You can also use it in your Python scripts. (Deprecated)

import image_scraper
image_scraper.scrape_images(URL)

Options

-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-m MAX_IMAGES, --max-images MAX_IMAGES
                    Limit on number of images
-s SAVE_DIR, --save-dir SAVE_DIR
                    Directory in which images should be saved
-g, --injected        Scrape injected images
--proxy-server PROXY_SERVER
                    Proxy server to use
--min-filesize MIN_FILESIZE
                    Limit on size of image in bytes
--max-filesize MAX_FILESIZE
                    Limit on size of image in bytes
--dump-urls           Print the URLs of the images
--formats [FORMATS [FORMATS ...]]
                    Specify formats in a list without any separator. This
                    argument must be after the URL.
--scrape-reverse      Scrape the images in reverse order
--filename-pattern FILENAME_PATTERN
                    Only scrape images with filenames that match the given
                    regex pattern
--nthreads NTHREADS   The number of threads to use when downloading images.

If you downloaded the tar:

Extract the contents of the tar file.

$ cd ImageScraper/
$ python setup.py install
$ image-scraper --max-images 10 [url to scrape]

Examples

Scrape all images

$ image-scraper  ananth.co.in/test.html

Scrape at max 2 images

$ image-scraper -m 2 ananth.co.in/test.html

Scrape only gifs and download to folder ./mygifs

$ image-scraper -s mygifs ananth.co.in/test.html --formats gif

NOTE:

By default, a new folder called "images_" will be created in the working directory, containing all the downloaded images.

Issues

Q.)All images were not downloaded?

It could be that the content was injected into the page via JavaScript; this scraper doesn't run JavaScript.

Contribute

If you want to add features, improve them, or report issues, feel free to send a pull request!!

Contributors

• sananth12 (Anantha Natarajan)
• ssundarraj (Sriram Sundarraj)
• vigneshmanix (Vignesh M)
• osborne6
• tsleyson
• joshwget
• dannyflax

Disclaimer

ImageScraper is to be used education/research purposes only. The authors takes NO responsibility and/or liability for how you choose to use any of the tools/source code/any files provided. By using ImageScraper, you understand that you are AGREEING TO USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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