Download images from Google Image search using Python

gistfile1.py

import json
import os
import time
import requests
from PIL import Image
from StringIO import StringIO
from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError

def go(query, path):
  """Download full size images from Google image search.

  Don't print or republish images without permission.
  I used this to train a learning algorithm.
  """
  BASE_URL = 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?'\
             'v=1.0&q=' + query + '&start=%d'

  BASE_PATH = os.path.join(path, query)

  if not os.path.exists(BASE_PATH):
    os.makedirs(BASE_PATH)

  start = 0 # Google's start query string parameter for pagination.
  while start < 60: # Google will only return a max of 56 results.
    r = requests.get(BASE_URL % start)
    for image_info in json.loads(r.text)['responseData']['results']:
      url = image_info['unescapedUrl']
      try:
        image_r = requests.get(url)
      except ConnectionError, e:
        print 'could not download %s' % url
        continue

      # Remove file-system path characters from name.
      title = image_info['titleNoFormatting'].replace('/', '').replace('\\', '')

      file = open(os.path.join(BASE_PATH, '%s.jpg') % title, 'w')
      try:
        Image.open(StringIO(image_r.content)).save(file, 'JPEG')
      except IOError, e:
        # Throw away some gifs...blegh.
        print 'could not save %s' % url
        continue
      finally:
        file.close()

    print start
    start += 4 # 4 images per page.

    # Be nice to Google and they'll be nice back :)
    time.sleep(1.5)

# Example use
go('landscape', 'myDirectory')

bah ca a pas tout mis:
en gros pour les # tu met un try except pour ignorer l'erreur !

The API is no longer available unfortunately.

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