Want to scrape and download images for your own machine learning project?

Use image scraper to download images that you want from the web!

Heavily inspired by fast.ai download_images, forked from theojl6/image-scraper/

Run scrape-images.py to select what you want and download those images! Results sourced from Duck Duck Go search engine

Install

• clone this repo
• create a virtual environment

cd image-scraper
python3 -mvenv venv

• enter virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

• install requirements

pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

• search for images with a given keyword (e.g. fish)

python3 scrape-images.py
What do you want:
fish
Number of images?
100

• the resulting folder with images

image-scraper
├── fishimgs
│  ├── 0.jpg
│  ├── 1.jpg
│  ├── 2.jpg
│  └── ...
├── screenshots
├── .gitignore
├── image-scraper.py
├── utils.py
├── LICENSE
└── README.md

MIT License