ImageScraper 2.0.0

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

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

Download

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

pip install: $pip install ImageScraper

Usage

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.

###If you dowload the tar: $cd ImageScraper/ $python setup.py install $image-scraper [url to scrap]

###If installed using pip: Open python in terminal.

$image-scraper [url to scrap]

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

Upgrading

Check and updates and upgrade using:

$ sudo pip install ImageScraper –upgrade

Issues

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

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