limkokholefork / google_image_downloader

Downloading any number of images for a search query

Dependencies needed

1. Selenium
   Install as pip install selenium
2. Geckodriver
   [Geckodriver is already provided in the repository and therefore the following steps might not be required if the provided one works fine]

• Download latest release based on your OS and architecture
  wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.18.0/geckodriver-v0.18.0-linux64.tar.gz
• Extract the file
  tar -xvzf geckodriver*
• Make it executable
  chmod +x geckodriver
• Add the driver to the path for other tools to use it
  export PATH=$PATH:/path-to-extracted-file/geckodriver

Download any number of images from Google image search.

• run as (Use 2/3 according to python version)
  -Python 2
  python image_download_python2.py <query> <number of images>
  -Python 3
  python image_download_python3.py <query> <number of images>
  where:
  <query>: is the the query to search for.
  <number of images>: min(<number of images>, total google results) will be downloaded.

All the images are downloaded from Google image search. These should be used for educational purposes only. Copyright is owned by the respective websites.