This repository can download images from google with specified keywords or bare urls

• python 3.6
• selenium 3.6.0
• Firefox 55+
• geckodriver

Firefox and geckodriver are required by selenium, and Firefox 55 or greater is recommended, cause geckodriver support that best. As for geckodriver, just download the latest version of geckodriver from here, then add it to the PATH environment variable.

Here is an example of downloading with selenium using 2 processes

A few different methods are provided

• other/download_with_urllib
  • with just urllib, no dynamic js
  • due to the limit by google, each searching query can download at most 100 images
  • will directly download all the images since the number is small
• download_with_keywords
  • with Selenium, we can directly search and scroll in the browser, so we can get more than 100 images for each searching query.
  • Specify main_keywords and supplemented_keywords in the code, each main_keyword will join with each supplemented_keyword to become a searching query, and one directory will be created for each main_keyword to store the related images.
  • will firstly store the actual links of images in a file, then download the actual images with the file
• download_with_urls
  • with Selenium, we can directly search and scroll in the browser, so we can get more than 100 images for each searching query.
  • Specify urls in the code
  • will firstly store the actual links of images in a file, then download the actual images with the file

Most of the above methods support downloading with single process or multiple processes