AlexGraikos / image_scrapers

Image scraping scripts

Introduction

The Flickr image scaper is adopted from https://github.com/ultralytics/flickr_scraper.

Requirements

Python 3.7 or later with the packages specifield in requirements.txt.

Run

Flickr

1. Request a Flickr API key: https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply
2. Write your API key and secret in flickr_scraper.py L11-L12:

key = ''
secret = ''

3. Run the Flickr scraper tool as

python flickr_scraper.py --search 'search_term' --tags 'comma,separated,tags' --n nImages

Note that image downloads may be subject to Flickr rate limits and other limitations. See https://www.flickr.com/services/developer/api/ for full information. Results are saved in the images directory.

Parsing Results

Use the parse_results.py script as

python parse_results.py path/to/results.json

to get the total number and latitudes-longitudes of geotagged images.