{"id":6219,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"scrape-images-from-a-website-with-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/scrape-images-from-a-website-with-python\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Scrape Images from a Website with Python? [Image Scraping Tutorial 2023]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Are you looking forward to downloading images from web pages using Python? The process has been made easy thanks to the python language syntax and its associated libraries. Stay long enough on this page to learn how to use Python for scraping images online.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7281 perfmatters-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online-300x167.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online-768x426.jpg.webp 768w\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201000%20555'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201000%20555'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Python for scraping images online\" width=\"1000\" height=\"555\" data-src=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online-768x426.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/picture>\n<noscript><picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7281\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online-300x167.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online-768x426.jpg.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online.jpg\" alt=\"Python for scraping images online\" width=\"1000\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Python-for-scraping-images-online-768x426.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/>\n<\/picture>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>We are in a time when data has become more important than ever \u2013 and the quest for it will only increase in the future. the Internet has proven to be one of the largest sources of data. There is an enormous number of data ranging from text to downloadable files, including images on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Many tutorials on the Internet focuses on <a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/python-web-scraper-tutorial\/\">how to scrape text<\/a> and neglect the guides on how to scrape images and other downloadable files. This is understandable, though; most of the guides are not in-depth, and not <a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/web-scraping-tools\/\">many web scrapers<\/a> have an interest in scraping images as most deals with text data. If you are one of the few interested in scraping images, then this guide has been written for you.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"image-scraping-it-is-easier-than-you-think\" class=\"ftwp-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Image_Scraping_%E2%80%93_It_is_Easier_than_you_Think\"><\/span><strong>Image Scraping \u2013 It is Easier than you Think<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"su-youtube su-u-responsive-media-yes\">\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QZn_ZxpsIw4\" data-id=\"QZn_ZxpsIw4\" data-query onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\" data-cf-modified-aecffd6dc03d443aad675fc8->\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20480%20360%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/QZn_ZxpsIw4\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"play\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QZn_ZxpsIw4?\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture\" title=\"\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>For many beginners, they think image scraping is different from regular web scraping. In the actual sense, it is actually the same with little difference. In fact, except you are dealing with images that come in big file size, you will discover that all you need is your web scraping and file handling knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/web-scraping-practices\/\">Your web scraping skill<\/a> will help you scrape links of the images if you do not already have the links at hand. With links at hand, all that\u2019s required is for you to <a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/http-headers\/\">send HTTP requests<\/a> to the link to have the images downloaded and then create files to write them in.<\/p>\n<p>While it is easy, I know a step by step guide will help you better in understanding how to get this done. For this, we will be working on a project \u2013 and by the end of the project, you will get an idea of what it takes to scrape images from web pages.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"project-idea-one-scraping-image-from-static-sites\" class=\"ftwp-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Project_Idea_One_Scraping_Image_from_Static_Sites\"><\/span><strong>Project Idea One: Scraping Image from Static Sites<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7285 perfmatters-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites-300x167.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites-768x429.jpg.webp 768w\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201000%20558'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201000%20558'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Scraping Image from Static Sites\" width=\"1000\" height=\"558\" data-src=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites-768x429.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/picture>\n<noscript><picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7285\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites-300x167.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites-768x429.jpg.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites.jpg\" alt=\"Scraping Image from Static Sites\" width=\"1000\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scraping-Image-from-Static-Sites-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/>\n<\/picture>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Some of the easiest websites to scrape images from are static sites. This is because when you send a web request to a server requesting static pages, all of the components are returned to you as a response, and all you need to do is to scrape the links and then start sending HTTP requests to each of the links.<\/p>\n<p>For dynamic pages that rely on JavaScript to render images and other contents, you will need to follow a different approach to be able to scrap images on them.<\/p>\n<p>To show you how to scrape images from a static page, we will be working on a generic image scraping tool that scrapes all images on a static page. The script accepts the URL of a page as a parameter and downloads all the images on the page into the script folder.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"requirements-for-scraping-static-pages-using-python\" class=\"ftwp-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Requirements_for_Scraping_Static_Pages_using_Python\"><\/span><strong>Requirements for Scraping Static Pages using Python<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Python has made scraping very easy \u2013 and straightforward. There are a good number of tools for scraping images, and you will have to make your choices based on the use case, target site, and personal preference. For this guide, you will need the below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-list\" style=\"margin-left:0px\">\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"requests\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Requests\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/requests.readthedocs.io\/en\/master\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Requests<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7185 perfmatters-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests-300x193.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests-768x494.jpg.webp 768w\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201000%20643'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201000%20643'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"HTTP requests\" width=\"1000\" height=\"643\" data-src=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests-768x494.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/picture>\n<noscript><picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7185\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests-300x193.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests-768x494.jpg.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests.jpg\" alt=\"HTTP requests\" width=\"1000\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/HTTP-requests-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/>\n<\/picture>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Requests is an elegant python library for HTTP requests. It is dubbed HTTP for Humans. As a web scraper, Requests is one of the tools you should be conversant with. While you can use the URL library that comes bundled in the standard library, you need to know that Requests make a lot of things simple and easy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/web-scraping-with-python\/\">Python Web Scraping Libraries and Framework<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"beautifulsoup\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"BeautifulSoup\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crummy.com\/software\/BeautifulSoup\/bs4\/doc\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BeautifulSoup<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7184 perfmatters-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup-300x148.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup-768x379.jpg.webp 768w\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201000%20494'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201000%20494'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Beautiful Soup\" width=\"1000\" height=\"494\" data-src=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup-768x379.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/picture>\n<noscript><picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7184\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup-300x148.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup-768x379.jpg.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful Soup\" width=\"1000\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Beautiful-Soup-768x379.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/>\n<\/picture>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Parsing is one of the key aspects of web scraping, and this can either be difficult or easy, depending on how a page has been structured. With BeautifulSoup, a parsing library for Python, parsing becomes easy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/scrapy-vs-selenium-vs-beautifulsoup-for-web-scraping\/\">Scrapy Vs. Beautifulsoup Vs. Selenium for Web Scraping<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/data-parsing\/\">What is Data Parsing and Parsing Techniques involved?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"file-handling\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"File_Handling\"><\/span><strong>File Handling<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scraping images requires you to know how to handle files. Interestingly, we do not need any special library like the Python Imaging Library (PIL) since all we do is save images.<\/p><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"coding-steps-for-scraping-images\" class=\"ftwp-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Coding_Steps_for_Scraping_Images\"><\/span><strong>Coding Steps for Scraping Images<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With the above requirements, you are set to start scraping images from web pages. If you have not installed Requests and BeautifulSoup, you will need to install them as they are third party libraries not bundled in the Python standard library. You can use the pip command to install them. Below are the commands for installing these libraries.<\/p>\n<pre>pip install requests<\/pre>\n<pre>pip install beautifulsoup4<\/pre>\n<p>Now to the coding proper.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"su-list\" style=\"margin-left:0px\">\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"import-required-libraries\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Import_Required_Libraries\"><\/span><strong>Import Required Libraries <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first step is importing the required libraries, which include Requests and BeautifulSoup.<\/p>\n<pre>from urllib.parseimport urlparse\n\nimport requests\n\nfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup<\/pre>\n<p>From the above, you can see that the<\/p>\n<pre>urlparse<\/pre>\n<p>library was also imported. This is required as we will need to parse out the domain from the URL and append it to URLs of images with relative URLs.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"scrape-links-of-the-images-on-a-page\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scrape_Links_of_the_Images_on_a_page\"><\/span><strong>Scrape Links of the Images on a page <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>url = \"https:\/\/ripple.com\/xrp\"\n\ndomain = urlparse(url).netloc\n\nreq = requests.get(url)\n\nsoup = BeautifulSoup(req.text, \"html.parser\")\n\nraw_links = soup.find_all(\"img\")\n\nlinks = []\n\nfor iin raw_links:\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 link = i['src']\n\nif link.startswith(\"http\"):\n\nlinks.append(link)\n\nelse:\n\nmodified_link = \"https:\/\/\" + domain + link\n\nlinks.append(modified_link)<\/pre>\n<p>Looking at the code above, you will notice that it carries out 3 tasks \u2013 send request, parse URLs, and save the URLs in the links variable. You can change the url variable to any URL of your choice.<\/p>\n<p>In the third line, Requests was used for sending HTTP requests \u2013 and in lines 4 and 5, BeautifulSoup was used for parsing out URLs.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the looping section, you will observe that only images with absolute paths (URLs) would be added to the link list. The ones with relative URLs need further processing,and the else section of the code was used for that. The further processing adds the domain name URL to the relative URLs.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"download-and-save-images\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Download_and_Save_Images\"><\/span><strong>Download and Save Images <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>for x in range(len(links)):\n\ndownloaded_image = requests.get(links[x]).content\n\nwith open(str(x) + \".jpg\", \"wb\") as f:\n\nf.write(downloaded_image)\n\nprint(\"Images scraped successfully... you can now check this script folder for your images\")<\/pre>\n<p>All we did above is loop through the list of image URLs and download the content of each image using the Requests. With the content at hand, we then create a JPG file for each and write the content inside it. It is as simple as that. For the naming, I used numbers to represent each of the images.<\/p>\n<p>This was done as the script has been written to be simple and a proof of concept. You can decide to use the alt value for each image \u2013 but have in mind that some images do not have any value for that \u2013 for these, you will have to come up with a naming formula.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"full-code\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Full_Code\"><\/span><strong>Full Code <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>from urllib.parseimport urlparse\n\nimport requests\n\nfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup\n\n\n\nurl = \"https:\/\/ripple.com\/xrp\"\n\ndomain = urlparse(url).netloc\n\nreq = requests.get(url)\n\nsoup = BeautifulSoup(req.text, \"html.parser\")\n\nraw_links = soup.find_all(\"img\")\n\nlinks = []\n\nfor iin raw_links:\n\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 link = i['src']\n\nif link.startswith(\"http\"):\n\nlinks.append(link)\n\nelse:\n\nmodified_link = \"https:\/\/\" + domain + link\n\nlinks.append(modified_link)\n\n# write images to files\n\nfor x in range(len(links)):\n\ndownloaded_image = requests.get(links[x]).content\n\nwith open(str(x) + \".jpg\", \"wb\") as f:\n\nf.write(downloaded_image)\n\nprint(\"Images scraped successfully... you can now check this script folder for your images\")<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"project-idea-two-using-selenium-for-image-scraping\" class=\"ftwp-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Project_Idea_Two_Using_Selenium_for_Image_Scraping\"><\/span><strong>Project Idea Two: Using Selenium for Image Scraping <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Not all sites are static sites. A good number of modern websites are interactive and JavaScript-rich. For these sites, all content on a page does not get loaded upon sending an HTTP request \u2013 a good number of the content gets loaded via JavaScript events.<\/p>\n<p>For sites like this, requests and beautifulsoup are useless since they do not follow the static site approach requests and beautifulsoup are meant for. Selenium is the tool for the job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/selenium-python.readthedocs.io\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Selenium<\/a> is a browser automation tool that was initially developed for testing web applications but has seen other usage, including web scraping and general web automation. With Selenium, a real browser is launched, and pages and JavaScript event-triggered to make sure all content is available. I will be showing you how to scrape images from Google using Selenium.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/playwright-vs-puppeteer-vs-selenium\/\">Playwright Vs. Puppeteer Vs. Selenium: What are the differences?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/headless-browser\/\">Headless browsers for automation testing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"selenium-requirements-and-setup\" class=\"ftwp-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Selenium_Requirements_and_Setup\"><\/span><strong>Selenium Requirements and Setup<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For Selenium to work, you will have to install the Selenium package and download the browser driver for the specific browser you want to use. In this guide, we will be making use of Chrome. To install Selenium, use the code below.<\/p>\n<pre>pip install selenium<\/pre>\n<p>With Selenium installed, you can then visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome download page<\/a> and install it if you do not have it installed on your system already.You need to also download the Chrome driver application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/chromium.org\/chromedriver\/downloads\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit this page to download the driver<\/a> for your Chrome browser version. The downloaded file is a zip file with the chromedriver.exe file inside. Extract the chromedriver.exe file to the folder of your selenium project. In the same folder, you placed the cghromedriver.exe file, create a new python file named SeleImage.py.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"coding-steps-for-scraping-images-using-selenium\" class=\"ftwp-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Coding_Steps_for_Scraping_Images_using_Selenium\"><\/span><strong>Coding Steps for Scraping Images using Selenium<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I will work you through a step by step guide on how to code a Google Image scraper using Selenium and Python.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-list\" style=\"margin-left:0px\">\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"import-required-libraries-2\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Import_required_Libraries\"><\/span><strong>Import required Libraries<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>from selenium import webdriver\n\nfrom selenium.webdriver.chrome.optionsimport Options<\/pre>\n<p>The webdriver class is the main class we will be using from the Selenium package in this guide. The Options class is for setting webdriver options, including making it run in headless mode.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"request-for-google-search-homepage-and-enter-image-keyword-to-search\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Request_for_Google_Search_Homepage_and_Enter_Image_Keyword_to_Search\"><\/span><strong>Request for Google Search Homepage and Enter Image Keyword to Search<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>keyword = \"Selenium Guide\"\n\ndriver = webdriver.Chrome()\n\ndriver.get(\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\")\n\ndriver.find_element_by_name(\"q\").send_keys(keyword)\n\ndriver.find_element_by_name(\"btnK\").submit()<\/pre>\n<p>The code above is self-explanatory for any Python coder. The first line holds the search keyword we want to download images for. The second show, we will be using Chrome for the automation task. The third line sends a request for the Google homepage.<\/p>\n<p>Using the element.find_element_by_name, we were able to access the search input element with the name attribute \u201cq.\u201d Using the send_keys method, the keyword was filled, and then we submitted the query using the last line. If you run the code, you will see Chrome will launch in automation mode, fill the query form, and take you to the result pages.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"switch-to-images-and-download-first-2-images\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Switch_to_Images_and_Download_first_2_Images\"><\/span><strong>Switch to Images and Download first 2 Images <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>driver.find_elements_by_class_name(\"hide-focus-ring\")[1].click()\n\nimages = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('img')[0:2]\n\n\n\nfor x in range(len(images)):\n\ndownloaded_image = requests.get(images[x].get_attribute('src')).content\n\nwith open(str(x) + \".jpg\", \"wb\") as f:\n\nf.write(downloaded_image)<\/pre>\n<p>the code above is also self-explanatory. The first line locates the image search link and clicks it, moving the focus from all results to only images. The second image finds only the first two images. Using the for loop, the images are downloaded.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-arrow-right\" style=\"color:#3330b1\"><\/i><br \/>\n<h3 id=\"full-code-2\" class=\"ftwp-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Full_Code-2\"><\/span><strong>Full Code<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre>import requests\n\nfrom selenium import webdriver\n\n\n\nkeyword = \"Selenium Guide\"\n\ndriver = webdriver.Chrome()\n\ndriver.get(\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\")\n\ndriver.find_element_by_name(\"q\").send_keys(keyword)\n\ndriver.find_element_by_name(\"btnK\").submit()\n\n\n\ndriver.find_elements_by_class_name(\"hide-focus-ring\")[1].click()\n\nimages = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('img')[0:2]\n\n\n\nfor x in range(len(images)):\n\ndownloaded_image = requests.get(images[x].get_attribute('src')).content\n\nwith open(str(x) + \".jpg\", \"wb\") as f:\n\nf.write(downloaded_image)<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<h2 id=\"the-legalities-of-scraping-images-from-the-web\" class=\"ftwp-heading\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Legalities_of_Scraping_Images_from_the_Web\"><\/span><strong>The Legalities of Scraping Images from the Web<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Unlike in the past that there is no clear-cut judgment as to whether <a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/web-scraping\/\">web scraping is legal or not<\/a>, a court has ruled in favor of the legality of web scraping provided you are not scraping data behind an authentication wall, breaking any rule, or adversely affecting your target sites.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue that could make web scraping illegal is copyright, and as you know, many images on the Internet have been copyrighted. This could end up putting you in trouble. I am not a lawyer, and you shouldn\u2019t take what I said as legal advice. I will advise you to seek the service of a lawyer on the legalities of scraping publicly available images on the Internet.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>From the above, you have discovered how easy it is to scrape images publicly available on the Internet. The process is straightforward, provided you are not dealing with large image files that would require streaming.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue you are likely to face is the issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/web-scraping-practices\/\">anti-scraping techniques<\/a> set up tomake it difficult for you to <a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/how-to-extract-data-from-a-website\/\">scrape web data<\/a>. You also have to put into consideration the legalities involved, and I advise you to seek the opinion of an experienced lawyer in this regard.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/how-to-avoid-captcha\/\">Captcha avoidance: How to Avoid Captcha More efficiently?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/web-scraping-javascript-tutorials\/\">How to scrape HTML from a website Using Javascript?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/google-scraper\/\">Google Scraper 101: How to Scrape Google SERPs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/seo-proxies\/\">Scraping Search Engines without Block and Captchas!<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking forward to downloading images from web pages using Python? The process has been made easy thanks to the python language syntax and its associated libraries. 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