ShutterScrape
ShutterScrape is a web scrapper for bulk downloading images and videos from Shutterstock with speed.
It implements Selenium for browser automation and Beautiful Soup for parsing.
Setting up
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Configure
shutterscrape.py
to your Python version. -
Install requirements from Terminal:
pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install selenium
pip install lxml
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Install ChromeDriver.
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(Optional) Configure environment variables paths for python.exe and chromedriver.exe.
Running
Open terminal in the directory of shutterscrape.py and enter:
python shutterscrape.py
Go grab a cup of coffee while waiting... oh wait, it's already done!
Definitions
- Search mode: Enter
i
for scraping images andv
for scraping videos . - Number of search terms: For example, if you want to search for drone single person, enter
3
. - Search term: Keyword(s) for searching on Shutterstock.
- Number of pages to scrape: Higher number of pages means greater quantity of content with lower keyword precision.
Updates
10/1/2020
Updated for new shutterstock page layout as of 10/1/2020.
4/26/2019
Updated for new shutterstock page layout as of 4/26/2019.
10/1/2018
Added GUI for save directory selection.
07/31/2018
More stability fixes.
07/25/2018
Added gettyscrape.py for scraping videos from Getty Images.
07/23/2018
Stability fixes.