ShutterScrape

ShutterScrape is a web scrapper for bulk downloading images and videos from Shutterstock with speed. ⚡
It implements Selenium for browser automation and Beautiful Soup for parsing.

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Setting up

1. Install Python 2.7.

2. Open terminal and enter the following lines:

pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install selenium
pip install lxml

3. Install ChromeDriver.

4. (Optional) Configure environment variables paths for python.exe and chromedriver.exe.

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Running

Open terminal in the directory of shutterscrape.py and enter:

python shutterscrape.py

Go grab a cup of coffee while waiting... oh wait, it's already done!

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Definitions

• Search mode: Enter i for scraping images and v for scraping videos .
• Number of search terms: For example, if you want to search for drone single person, enter 3.
• Search term: Keyword(s) for searching on Shutterstock.
• Number of pages to scrape: Higher number of pages means greater quantity of content with lower keyword precision.

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Updates

4/26/2019
Updated for new shutterstock page layout as of 4/26/2019.

10/1/2018
Added GUI for save directory selection.

07/31/2018
More stability fixes.

07/25/2018
Added gettyscrape.py for scraping videos from Getty Images.

07/23/2018
Stability fixes.