GimageScrape

A simple tool to scrape google images by simply specifying queries

Instructions:

1. git clone https://github.com/gigatesseract/GimageScrape.git
2. Install virtualenv (recommended) pip install vitualenv
3. Create virtual environment virtualenv env
4. Activate the virtual environment source env/bin/activate (You can deactivate it by deactivate)
5. Install requirements. pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Populate to_search.txt with your search queries. Make sure each query is in a new line. See to_search.txt for more details. Supports space separated queries.
7. cd googleScraper
8. In the settings.py file, add the following line:
   IMAGES_STORE = "path/to/valid/dir" where the value is a path to any valid directory
9. cd ..
10. scrapy crawl search

Sit back and relax. A folder called images will be created in the valid directory as mentioned in the IMAGES_STORE in settings.py and each searh query will create a new folder inside it and populate it with 20 images.

License

MIT