ImageScraper 1.1.0

A simple image scraper to download all images from a given url

ImageScraper
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A simple python script which downloads all images in the given webpage.


Download
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tar file:
Grab the latest build using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ImageScraper

pip install:
$pip install ImageScraper


Usage
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Using the tar file:

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


$cd ImageScraper/image_scraper/
$python __init__.py
$ Enter URL to scrap: https://github.com
$ Found 6 images:
$ How many images do you want ? : 6
$ Done.

If installed using pip:

Open python in terminal:

$python
>>>import image_scraper
Enter URL to scrap: https://github.com
Found 6 images:
How many images do you want ? : 6
Done.


NOTE:
A new folder called "images" will be created in the same place, containing all the downloaded images.


Upgrading
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Check and updates and upgrade using:

$ sudo pip install ImageScraper --upgrade


Issues
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Q.)All images were not downloaded?
It could be that the content was injected into the page via javascript and this scraper doesn't run javascript.


Todo
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Scraping sites which inject image tags via javascript by using PhantomJS or Selenium.