titigmr / GGD

Google Image Downloader

Google Image Downloader

Usefull package for collecting image label in machine learning usecases.

Setup

This package is available on pypi repository

pip install ggd

Is required have installed the browser, using a webdriver (Geckodriver or Chromedriver) and have the executable in the path.

The following command can be used in linux64 platform

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.30.0/geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz && tar -zxvf geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz && rm geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz && mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/

Simple Usage

from ggd import GoogleImage

gg = GoogleImage()
gg.download(request='Alakazam', n_images=200)

• All images are downloaded in a new folder.

• all_files attribute contains all images pathes downloaded.

print(gg.all_files)
>>> ['Alakazam/Alakazam_000.png',
    'Alakazam/Alakazam_001.png',
    'Alakazam/Alakazam_002.png',
    'Alakazam/Alakazam_003.png',
    'Alakazam/Alakazam_004.png',
    ...]

Advanced Usage

For using this package with more requests labeled and see scraping working in backend.

from ggd import GoogleImage

google_dl = GoogleImage(driver=driver,
                        verbose=True,
                        close_after_download=False,
                        headless=False)

n = 500
for rq, name_im in [("bulbasaur --cards", 'Bulbizarre'),
                    ('ivysaur --cards', 'Herbizarre')]:
    google_dl.download(request=rq,
                       n_images=n,
                       directory='Data',
                       name=name_im)
google_dl.close()

For multiplying number and variety of images, use Google filtering* in requests , synonyms, other languages...

*article in french