gImageGrabber 0.1.11

Tool download orignal resolution images from Google search

It provides tools to grab images from a google search by extracting the links of the images and downloading full resolution images.

This program written in Python is tested on windows 10 64-bit processor. It uses Selenium to open a browser so as to scroll down to get more images than possible otherwise. Thus it needs a browser to work correctly. This is on default set to use chrome browser but if its not found it will use Firefox. The package comes with chromedriver and geckodriver with it.

Installation

To install gImageGrabber do as follow:

$ pip install gImageGrabber

There are two python files imgScrape and imgTools.

imgScrape has all the utilities needed to run the script but if you want to have additional control functions you could explore imgTools.

Importing

This how you can import this module to your script.

from gimagegrabber import imgScrape
from gimagegrabber import imgTools

Functions

Building URL

imgScrape.build_url(search)

This is to compose a google search URL for your search term. It takes a search argument which specifies your search term of which you need pictures of.

Usage :

from gimagegrabber import imgScrape

searchTerm = "kamikaze eminem"

url = imgScrape.build_url(searchTerm)
print(url) #FOR DEBUG PURPOSE

Getting Source Data

imgScrape.browser(url, test=False)

This to start a browser windows and scroll down the webpage to let more pictures load.It returns a raw source code encoded utf-8. It takes 2 arguments url and test .

1. url is the url of the page it needs to open.

2. test is to make the browser scroll down less thus taking less time to return the source code. This is useful when you are writing or debugging.

It uses Chrome or Firefox to work so make sure you have Google chrome or Firefox installed at their default directory.

Sometimes you might need to click on show more images on webpage to load even more images

If you cant seem to open browser make sure you are on 64-bit OS and that you have chrome or Firefox installed.

If you are on 32-bit processor you need to use Firefox and you also have to download 32 bit driver from here and replace it with the already present geckodriver.exe saved in driver folder of the gImageGrabber Module folder.

Usage :

from gimagegrabber import imgScrape

searchTerm = "Kamikaze"

url = imgScrape.build_url(searchTerm)
raw_data = imgScrape.browser(url)
print(raw_data) #FOR DEBUG PURPOSE

Extracting Links

imgScrape.imageLink(html)

This extracts the original link of the images from the html provided. html is the source code of the google image search page. It returns a dict with format [ link : file extension ] . If you want it in [file extension : link] you can use invDict() function from imgTools

Usage :

from gimagegrabber import imgScrape
from gimagegrabber import imgTools

searchTerm = "Kamikaze"
debug = False

url = imgScrape.build_url(searchTerm)
raw_data = imgScrape.browser(url,debug)
links = imgScrape.imageLink(raw_data)
print(links) #FOR DEBUG PURPOSE
print(imgTools,invDict(links)) #FOR DEBUG PURPOSE

Saving Images

imgScrape.saveImages(data, name, onlyType)`

This saves all the images given to it in a list of format [link: file extension].

It has 3 arguments:

1. data This is to provide dictionary containing links to images.

2. name This is to provide the name for the folder under which images will be saved.

3. onlyType If you want only a particular file extension then use this mention that. If don’t want to specify anything pass it a empty string or just don’t use that argument.

The format in which it saves images is Search term

Root folder
|-- Search Term
    |-- file extension(eg 'jpg')
        |-- 000001.jpg
        |-- 000002.jpg

Usage :

from gimagegrabber import imgScrape

searchTerm = "Kamikaze"
extension = '' #save all types of images

url = imgScrape.build_url(searchTerm)
raw_data = imgScrape.browser(url)
links = imgScrape.imageLink(raw_data)
imgScrape.saveImages(links,searchTerm,extension)

Example Code

This code is included in the package as simpleScript.py.

from imggrabber import imgScrape

# Search term
search = 'Python Language'
fType = ''  # if you want all the files them make it empty string
debug = False

html = imgScrape.browser(imgScrape.build_url(search), debug)
data = imgScrape.imageLink(html)
imgScrape.saveImages(data, search, fType)

Author

Saksham Sharma