kalebu / website-images-spider

A scraper for downloading all downloadable images on a given website

Website-Images-Spider

The repo consists of a source of for scraper made in python for downloading/scraping all public available images from a given website.

How it works

Once you specify the website, the scraper will scans through out a given website to find all public available tlinks and dive into all of those to find if there is any downloadable image , If there is , it will automatically download it and save on your local directory.

Getting started

To get started using this tool, firstly clone or download the repository to your computer just as shown below;

$-> git clone https://github.com/Kalebu/Website-Images-Spider

Dependancies

Before you begin playing this project, I recommend you to install the following dependencies first

$-> pip install bs4, requests, pillow

Move into the Project directory

Navigate into your project repository either by using cd commands or by opening a terminal inside a project repository.

$-> cd Website-Images-Spider
$ Website-Images-Spider-> python app.py
Enter URL with images : 

Enjoy downloading the images

Now once you run the script, it will prompt you to enter a url for a specific website you would like to scrap the images from and then once done, take a coffe while you wait for the images to be downloaded.

Note

This script doesn't work very well with website with a bunch of JS

Issues

Incase you have any difficulties or issues while trying to run the script you can raise it on the issues.

Pull Requests

If you have something to add I welcome pull requests on improvement , you're helpful contribution will be merged as soon as possible

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Credits

All the credits to kalebu