search by url about google-images-download

[hardikvasa]

@marcelloexp386

For the first issue with : i think you are using the older version of this script. A few commits back, this was changed to use _ instead of : because of compatibility issues in windows. Please update your script to the latest version of this repo.

Regarding the second issue, the correct command to search by image is si or similar_images. You can use your command...just replace -u with -si. The '-u' is used where you can copy google images link from your browser and just paste it here and it will download all the images from that page.

The description of -u might be little confusion. I will have it edited. Do let me know if that works for you.

[marcelloexp386]

Thanks @hardikvasa for your kind answer.

1. solved
2. tried your suggestion but still doesn't work. I was looking for example for images similar to wikipedia one:

py google_images_download.py -si "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Wikipedia-logo-en-big.png" -l 20

but it gives me the following errors:

Item no.: 1 --> Item name = 2018-04-03 13_13_29
Evaluating...
HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
Starting Download...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "google_images_download.py", line 775, in
errorCount = bulk_download(search_keyword,suffix_keywords,prefix_keywords,limit,main_directory)
File "google_images_download.py", line 645, in bulk_download
items,errorCount = _get_all_items(raw_html,main_directory,dir_name,limit) #get all image items and download images
File "google_images_download.py", line 574, in _get_all_items
object, end_content = _get_next_item(page)
File "google_images_download.py", line 540, in _get_next_item
start_line = s.find('rg_meta notranslate')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find'

[hardikvasa]

@marcelloexp386 Unfortunately I could not reproduce this error.

When I tried using your query from a windows 10, python 3 environment, I could successfully download all 20 images similar to the one you provided in the link.

Do you see this error for different image links or only this one image?

[hardikvasa]

Closing this issue for now. Feel free to reply back if this issue still persist.

[marcelloexp386]

You are right! Now it works for me too. I tried both in gitbash and in powershell ... and it works.