image_mint is a python package for searching for and downloading images
Project description
image_mint
Purpose
- This python package can be used to search for and download images from various search engines. You can specify minimum width and height of the image if you want.
Installation
- You must have Chrome browser installed. You can download it from https://www.google.com/chrome/
On Ubuntu, you can run:
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb```
- You must download Chrome webdriver. You can download it from https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
To know which version of Chrome is installed to match the driver version, you can use this command on Ubuntu:
dpkg --list|grep chrome
- After that, you can install the package using pip:
pip install image_mint
Usage:
You can use the package in python code like so:
from image_mint import Scraper
from image_mint.engines import Google
scraper = Scraper(Google('c:/temp/animals/chromedriver.exe'))
scraper.download("cat", "c:/temp/animals/images", limit=100, min_width=200)
Example on Windows You can also use command line:
image_mint.exe -c C:\temp\animals\chromedriver.exe -d C:\temp\animals\images -e Bing "Wild cats" -l 20 -mw 200
Note that the windows executable can be downloaded from
https://github.com/kouroshparsa/image_mint/blob/main/image_mint/bin/image_mint.exe
Here are the flags that can be used:
-e
: the search engine, possible values: DogPile/Bing/Google/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo-d
: the destination folder to download images to-c
: the chrome driver path using-l
: number of images to download-mw
: minimum width-mh
: minimum height
Example on Linus You can use other languages as well:
image_mint -c /tmp/chromedriver -d /tmp/images -e Google "πλοίο" -l 20 -mw 200
On some linux environment particularly Docker images, it is possible that after installing the package it does not recognize the image_mint executable. In that case, run:
export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin
or if you want it persist, add it to ~/.bashrc
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