web-image-extractor 0.2.2

Lightweight, dependency-free webpage image scraper

Made By Daniel Enesi.

Python Web Image Extractor

This Python project extracts images from a website url

• It can access many image formats including SVG.
• It works using only Python Standard Library modules.

Usage

1. Through the Tkinter UI

• Run python main.py
• A tkinter window should pop up providing a textbox.
• Enter the URL into the textbox and click "Get Images"
• When it is done, click the download button to download the images
• Select the folder you want to store the images
• Wait for the images from the website or html file path to download
• When the images download, the folder is automatically opened for you to view the images.

2. Via the command line

• Run python main.py <url> --fp <destination_path> --isfile
• Prints the image sources to console
• <url>: The link to html webpage
• • If --isfile is specified, <url> maps to a file in the runner's system
• <destination_path> is the path to store the images
• • If it is omitted, the images will not be stored

3. Using imports

• Install by running python -m pip install web-image-extractor
• Use from image_extractor import download_images, extract_images
• extract_images will get image sources from a webpage
• download_images will attempt to fetch the contents of the files and save them to your filesystem
• extract_and_download extracts images and downloads them to your file system. It takes a url and a destination folder

Notes

• To avoid overwriting files already present in your file system, choose an empty folder while using
• --isfile and --fp are undergoing testing and development
• The application might not work for some websites
• The tkinter interface might appear unresponsive sometimes, but it's probably just in an loop
• That said, I'll work to make it asynchronous so the UI doesn't freeze
• Would it be nice if I have an executable in this repo? So people don't need to code to use this.

Create a detailed issue to report a bug (I am aware of some), suggest a feature, or propose an improvement.
Enjoy using this!