ImageScraper 2.0.1

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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| image-scraper [-h] [--max-images MAX_IMAGES] url_to_scrape |
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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.

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



If installed using pip:
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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
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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.