def searchImages():
if request.method == 'POST':
print("entered post")
keyWord = request.form['keyword'] # assigning the value of the input keyword to the variable keyword
else:
print("did not enter post")
print('printing = ' + keyWord)
scraper_object = ImageScrapper() # instantiating the class
list_of_jpg_files = scraper_object.list_only_jpg_files('static') # obtaining the list of image files from the static folder
scraper_object.delete_existing_image(list_of_jpg_files) # deleting the old image files stored from the previous search
# splitting and combining the keyword for a string containing multiple words
image_name = keyWord.split()
image_name = '+'.join(image_name)
# adding the header metadata
header = {
'User-Agent': "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.134 Safari/537.36"}
service = ImageScrapperService # instantiating the object of class ImageScrapperService
# (imageURLList, header, keyWord, fileLoc)
masterListOfImages = service.downloadImages(keyWord, header) # getting the master list from keyword
imageList = masterListOfImages[0] # extracting the list of images from the master list
imageTypeList = masterListOfImages[1] # extracting the list of type of images from the masterlist
response = "We have downloaded ", len(imageList), "images of " + image_name + " for you"
return show_images() # redirect the control to the show images method
def show_images():
scraper_object=ImageScrapper() #Instantiating the object of class ImageScrapper
list_of_jpg_files=scraper_object.list_only_jpg_files('static') # obtaining the list of image files from the static folder
print(list_of_jpg_files)
try:
if(len(list_of_jpg_files)>0): # if there are images present, show them on a wen UI
return render_template('showImage.html',user_images = list_of_jpg_files)
else:
return "Please try with a different string" # show this error message if no images are present in the static folder
except Exception as e:
print('no Images found ', e)
return "Please try with a different string"