import json
import os
import time
import requests
from PIL import Image
from StringIO import StringIO
from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError
def go(query, path):
"""Download full size images from Google image search.
Don't print or republish images without permission.
I used this to train a learning algorithm.
"""
BASE_URL = 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?'\
'v=1.0&q=' + query + '&start=%d'
BASE_PATH = os.path.join(path, query)
if not os.path.exists(BASE_PATH):
os.makedirs(BASE_PATH)
start = 0 # Google's start query string parameter for pagination.
while start < 60: # Google will only return a max of 56 results.
r = requests.get(BASE_URL % start)
for image_info in json.loads(r.text)['responseData']['results']:
url = image_info['unescapedUrl']
try:
image_r = requests.get(url)
except ConnectionError, e:
print 'could not download %s' % url
continue
# Remove file-system path characters from name.
title = image_info['titleNoFormatting'].replace('/', '').replace('\\', '')
file = open(os.path.join(BASE_PATH, '%s.jpg') % title, 'w')
try:
Image.open(StringIO(image_r.content)).save(file, 'JPEG')
except IOError, e:
# Throw away some gifs...blegh.
print 'could not save %s' % url
continue
finally:
file.close()
print start
start += 4 # 4 images per page.
# Be nice to Google and they'll be nice back :)
time.sleep(1.5)
# Example use
go('landscape', 'myDirectory')