Python functions for 'searching' and 'downloading' Google images/image links.
Download and process the standard html page of google images.
This software is a modification of the original software: https://github.com/hardikvasa/google-images-download
This is a Python program to search keywords/key-phrases on Google Images and then also optionally download all Images.
Tested only on python 2.7
Can download max 100 images per query (html page retrived contains 100 images/links).
git clone https://github.com/nagash91/python-google-images-downloader.git
cd python-google-images-downloader
python setup.py install
# Download images in 'download_img' folder and return links of the downloaded images
links = google_image_download(search_keyword='cat', # string or list of strings
max_download_per_keyword=100,
extension_whitelist=None, # whitelist for file extensions
extension_blacklist=None, # blacklist for file extensions
replace_extension_not_in_whitelist='.jpg', # whitelist behaviour
download_img_path="download_imgs", # where to download images
image_file_prefix='google_', # prefix for downloaded image names
links_file_output='gdownlinks.txt', # file with image links
verbose=True,
ignore_errors=False)This program lets you download tons of images from Google. Please do not download any image without violating its copyright terms. Google Images is a search engine that merely indexes images and allows you to find them. It does NOT produce its own images and, as such, it doesn't own copyright on any of them. The original creators of the images own the copyrights.