README.rst

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

pip install (recommended):

You can also download using pip:

$ pip install ImageScraper

Dependencies

Note that ImageScraper depends on lxml, requests, setproctitle, and future. It also depends on pyThreadpool which can be downloaded and installed from here temporarily. 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.

import image_scraper
image_scraper.scrape_images(URL)

Options

-h, --help                      Print help
-m, --max-images <number>       Maximum number images to be scraped
-s, --save-dir  <path>          Name of the folder to save the images
-g, --injected                  Scrape injected images
--formats [ [FORMATS ..]]       Specify the formats of images to be scraped
--min-filesize  <size>          Limit on size of image in bytes (default: 0)
--max-filesize  <size>          Limit on size of image in bytes (default: 100000000)
--dump-urls                     Print the URLs of the images
--scrape-reverse                Scrape the images in reverse order
--proxy-urls            Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy

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.