giorking / autocrawler

Google, Naver multiprocess image web crawler (Selenium)

AutoCrawler

Google, Naver multiprocess image crawler (High Quality & Speed & Customizable)

How to use

1. Install Chrome

2. pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Write search keywords in keywords.txt

4. Run "main.py"

5. Files will be downloaded to 'download' directory.

Arguments

usage:

python3 main.py [--skip true] [--threads 4] [--google true] [--naver true] [--full false] [--face false]

--skip true        Skips keyword if downloaded directory already exists. This is needed when re-downloading.

--threads 4        Number of threads to download.

--google true      Download from google.com (boolean)

--naver true       Download from naver.com (boolean)

--full false       Download full resolution image instead of thumbnails (slow)

--face false       Face search mode

Full Resolution Mode

You can download full resolution image of JPG, GIF, PNG files by specifying --full true

Data Imbalance Detection

Detects data imbalance based on number of files.

When crawling ends, the message show you what directory has under 50% of average files.

I recommend you to remove those directories and re-download.

Remote crawling through SSH on your server

sudo apt-get install xvfb <- This is virtual display

sudo apt-get install screen <- This will allow you to close SSH terminal while running.

screen -S s1

Xvfb :99 -ac & DISPLAY=:99 python3 main.py

Customize

You can make your own crawler by changing collect_links.py