Web Image Scraper

A Python application and a Flask API to scrape images from a given URL and download them to a specified directory.

🚀 Kickstart your image scraping project with this easy-to-use tool.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Getting Started
• Flask API
  • Scrape Images Route
• Standalone Script
• Example Usage

Features

✅ Scrape images from a URL.

✅ Download images to a specified directory.

✅ Flask API to provide image scraping as a service.

Getting Started

To get started with this image scraper, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/web-image-scraper.git

2. Install the required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the Flask API or the standalone script.

Flask API

Scrape Images Route

The Flask API provides a POST route for scraping images from a URL and returning the URLs of images larger than 5KB.

Endpoint: /scrape

Method: POST

Request JSON Payload:

{
  "url": "https://example.com"
}

Response JSON:

{
  "images": [
    "https://example.com/image1.jpg",
    "https://example.com/image2.png"
  ]
}

📝 Example usage:

import requests

url = 'http://localhost:5000/scrape'
data = {'url': 'https://example.com'}

response = requests.post(url, json=data)
print(response.json())

Standalone Script

The standalone script scrape_images.py allows you to scrape images from a URL and download them to a specified directory on your local system.

📝 Example usage:

python scrape_images.py