Streetview Scraper v2: arbitrary size Street View images for almost free

Features:

• Basically free scraping of Street View images (0.014 USD per worker initialization).
• Launch multiple workers in parallel.
• Get multiple angles and different time periods for each location.
• Arbitrarily sized images without watermarks.

Note: You will need a Google Maps API key.

Check the blog post for a full breakdown: https://loichovon.com/posts/streetview-scraper-v2.html

Setup

python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\active # Windows
source .venv\bin\activate # Mac/Linux
pip install requirements.txt

Copy the example .env file and enter your Maps API key.

cp .env.example .env 

Usage

First, start the server. The client tries to connect to it at http://127.0.0.1:5000 by default. Update StreetviewScreenshotClient::screenshot() in client.py if you want to change the server's address.

flask --app server.py run

Then launch the client.

python client.py -h
usage: client.py [-h] [-n NUM_WORKERS] [-s IMAGE_SIZE] [-b]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -n NUM_WORKERS, --num-workers NUM_WORKERS
                        Number of parallel workers to launch
  -s IMAGE_SIZE, --image-size IMAGE_SIZE
                        Width,height dimensions of images scraped
  -b, --show-browser    Show the browser windows.

Change client.py to get your locations of interest from a file or a database and scrape away!