Python Script for 'searching' and 'downloading' hundreds of Google images to the local hard disk!
This is a command line python program to search keywords/key-phrases on Google Images and then also optionally download all images to your computer. This is a small program which is ready-to-run, but still under development. Many more features will be added to it going forward.
This program is compatible with both the versions of python (2.x and 3.x). It is a download-and-run program with no changes to the file. You will just have to specify parameters through the command line.
- Download this repository on your local hard drive
- Open the terminal (for mac/linux OS) or command prompt (for windows OS) and browse to the location of the file 'google-images-download.py' on your local disk.
- Type in one of the following command mentioned below
If you have python 2.x version installed
python google-images-download.py --keywords "Polar bears, baloons, Beaches" --limit 20
If you have python 3.x version installed
python3 google-images-download.py --keywords "Polar bears, baloons, Beaches" --limit 20
To use the short hand command
python google-images-download.py -k "Polar bears, baloons, Beaches" -l 20
To use color filters for the images
python google-images-download.py -k "playground" -l 20 -c red
===> Keywords denotes the words that you would want to search for, limit donotes number of images that you would want to download and color denotes the color filter that you would want to apply to the images. Only the keywords field is mandatory.
===> The images would be downloaded in their own directories in the same folder as the python file.
If you do see SSL errors on Mac for Python 3 please go to Finder —> Applications —> Python 3 —> Click on the ‘Install Certificates.command’ and run the file.
This program lets you download tons of images from Google. Please do not download any image without violating its copyright terms. Google Images is a search engine that merely indexes images and allows you to find them. It does NOT produce its own images and, as such, it doesn't own copyright on any of them. The original creators of the images own the copyrights.
Images published in the United States are automatically copyrighted by their owners, even if they do not explicitly carry a copyright warning. You may not reproduce copyright images without their owner's permission, except in "fair use" cases, or you could risk running into lawyer's warnings, cease-and-desist letters, and copyright suits. Please be very careful before its usage!