image-mint 1.0.0

image_scraper

#Purpose

• This python package can be used to 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
• After that, you can install the package using pip:

  pip install image_scraper
  

#Usage: You can use the package in python code like so:

    from image_scraper import Scraper  
    from image_scraper.engines import Google
    scraper = Scraper(Google('c:/temp/animals/chromedriver.exe'))
    scraper.download("cat", "c:/temp/animals/images", limit=100, min_width=200)

You can also use command line:

python image_scraper\console.py -c C:\temp\animals\chromedriver.exe -d C:\temp\animals\images -e Bing "Wild cats" -l 20 -mw 200

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

You can use other languages as well:

python image_scraper\console.py -c /tmp/chromedriver.exe -d /tmp/images -e Google "πλοίο" -l 20 -mw 200