Bing Image Downloader

A Python library to download bulk of images from Bing.com.

Disclaimer

This program lets you download many images from Bing.

Please do not download or use any image that violates its copyright terms.

Installation

pip install bing-image-downloader

or

git clone https://github.com/gurugaurav/bing_image_downloader
cd bing_image_downloader
pip install .

Usage

from bing_image_downloader import downloader
query = "Cat"
downloader.download(query, 
                    limit=100,  
                    output_dir='dataset', 
                    adult_filter_off=True, 
                    force_replace=False, 
                    timeout=60, 
                    verbose=True)

query_string : String or list of strings to be searched.

limit : (optional, default is 100) Number of images to download (per query).

output_dir : (optional, default is 'dataset') Name of output dir.

adult_filter_off : (optional, default is True) Disable adult content filtering.

force_replace : (optional, default is False) Delete folder if present and start a fresh download.

timeout : (optional, default is 60) connection timeout in seconds.

filter : (optional, default is "") filter for only certain types of images, choose from [line, photo, clipart, gif, transparent]

img_size : (optional) Minimum size of the images to download with _ separating the width and height respectively (i.e. 512_512)

verbose : (optional, default is True) Enable downloaded message.

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You can also test the program by running test.py keyword