>100 images on linux OS about google-images-download

[hardikvasa]

@freekeys thanks for your feedback :-)

yes, as you might have read in #53 , this is a known issue with Linux OS but works fine on Windows and OS X. I will add this information in the documentation. I will also try implementing the algo using chromedriver instead of geckodriver. But for now this is a won't fix issue.

Closing this issue for now. Feel free to post back if you found a workaround/solution to the geckodriver issue on Linux!

[freekeys]

Thanks @hardikvasa!

[hardikvasa]

was working with a sample/dummy code using chromedriver (and chrome browser) to download all the images returned by google search and that seems to work on linux, mac and windows. Let me keep this issue open until i do some more tests and merge it in this repo... :-)

[jaredjohansen]

I agree with free keys that this tool is way slick. Thank you for it!

I'll add a +1 for this feature request. I get the same error (on Ubuntu 16.06) as freekeys. I'd love to be able to download 100+ images from Linux OS.

[hardikvasa]

Thanks @jaredjohansen for the feedback.

@jaredjohansen @freekeys the script is now updated to use chromedriver (with chrome browser) instead of geckodriver (with firefox browser).

I have successfully tested this script on Windows, Mac, Linux CentOS and Ubuntu and works perfectly fine. I could download 750+ images per keyword (everything that google returns).

You can follow the one time installation guide of chromedriver and chrome browser in the troubleshooting section of the documentation. Do let me know if this works for you.

[elleobrien]

@hardikvasa I am trying this but still not working for me- I have chromedriver (v2.9, latest version) in the same directory where I am calling googleimagesdownload. I'm doing

googleimagesdownload --keywords "cute" --limit 200 --chromedriver "./chromedriver"

And then I get the error
Looks like we cannot locate the path the 'chromedriver'. Please use the '--chromedriver' argument to specify the path to the executable.

It get the same error if I call it at a different location-
googleimagesdownload --keywords "cute" --limit 200 --chromedriver "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver"

[hardikvasa]

@andronovhopf what linux OS are you running this from?

this could be due to various reasons:

• If the path is correct but the chromedriver file does not have execute permission
• can you try with an absolute path /usr/local/bin/chromedriver in the query instead of a relative path? (should not matter but just for testing purposes)
• you do not have chrome browser installed in your system. In that case please look into the troubleshooting guide of this repo for links to install google chrome stable version

Also the latest version of chromedriver is 2.37
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

[elleobrien]

I’m running Ubuntu (xenial). I’ll check out the permissions on the chrome driver- I got the same error using an absolute path, and I definitely have chrome browser installed on the system.

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On Mar 31, 2018, at 1:56 PM, Hardik Vasa ***@***.***> wrote: @andronovhopf what linux OS are you running this from? this could be due to various reasons: If the path is correct but the chromedriver file does not have execute permission can you try with an absolute path /usr/local/bin/chromedriver instead of a relative path? (should not matter but just for testing purposes) you do not have chrome browser installed in your system. In that case please look into the troubleshooting guide for links to install google chrome stable version — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[elleobrien]

Yep it's in my directory and permissions look good

eobrien@picket:~$ ls -la
total 61016
drwxr-xr-x 61 eobrien eobrien     4096 Mar 31 13:39 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root    root        4096 Jun 21  2017 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 eobrien root    19354520 Dec 16  2013 chromedriver

Tried the following
sudo googleimagesdownload --keywords "cute" --limit 200 --chromedriver "/home/eobrien/chromedriver"

and

googleimagesdownload --keywords "cute" --limit 200 --chromedriver "./chromedriver"

Failure :/

[hardikvasa]

@andronovhopf thanks for the info. would you mind running the below command again to see if it updates to a stable version?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

This error could only be thrown if either the chromedriver was not found or the chrome browser was not found. This does not look to me like the issue is with chromedriver.

Did you happen to download the latest version of chromedriver (2.37) ?

I would also give this a shot:
sudo pip install google-images-download --upgrade

[hardikvasa]

@andronovhopf

I did spin up an EC2 instance: ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20180306 (ami-4e79ed36)

And then i followed the exact same steps as mentioned in the accepted answer here to download google-chrome-stable
https://askubuntu.com/a/510186

and then i used your query and it worked perfectly fine.

[elleobrien]

Got it! Now it's working. I had to make sure I had chromedriver 2.37, and then it worked. I must have had a different version.

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On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Hardik Vasa ***@***.***> wrote: @andronovhopf <https://github.com/andronovhopf> I did spin up an EC2 instance: ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-20180306 (ami-4e79ed36) And then i followed the exact same steps as mentioned in the accepted answer here to download google-chrome-stable https://askubuntu.com/questions/510056/how-to-install-google-chrome and then i used your query and it worked perfectly fine. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#56 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AcVw9MN1ztbaRH6Az7dcaJm5fBYerFaCks5tkApDgaJpZM4S8Y4Y> .

[hardikvasa]

Sounds good! Closing this issue since this feature has been tested and it works on all major OS.

[jaredjohansen]

Just tested it on my machine. Works for me too! Thanks hardikvasa!

[xxllp]

I have get fine at first .but get the same error today

[xxllp]

Unfortunately all 250 could not be downloaded because some images were not downloadable. 100 is all we got for this search filter!

[hardikvasa]

@xxllp this could be because the qury that you used, Google image search only returned 100 images. Could you search on Google images page directly to see if that's true?