this code downloads all the grays anatomy images on wikimedia into ./grays_anatomy_plates

grays_anatomy_downloader

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# this code downloads all the grays anatomy images on wikimedia into ./grays_anatomy_plates
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import time
import os, urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

plates_url = 'http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s_Anatomy_plates'
base = 'https://commons.wikimedia.org'
save_dir = 'grays_anatomy_plates'
assert os.path.exists(save_dir)
print 'getting index..'
tmp = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(plates_url).read())
links = tmp.findAll('li',attrs={'class':'gallerybox'})
links = [l.find('a').get('href') for l in links]

count = 0
for link in links:
    count += 1
    tmp = base + link
    print tmp
    tmp = urllib2.urlopen(tmp).read()
    tmp = BeautifulSoup(tmp)
    img = tmp.find('div', attrs={'class':'fullMedia'}).find('a').get('href')
    img = img[1:] if img.startswith('//') else img
    img = img[1:] if img.startswith('/') else img
    fname = img.split('/')[-1].lower()
    fext=os.path.splitext(fname)[-1]
    if fname.startswith('gray{0}'.format(count)):
        fname = fext
    else:
        fname = '_'+fname
    print img
    u3 = img
    newf = 'gray{0}{1}'.format(count, fname)
    os.system('cd {0} && wget -4 {1} -O {2}'.format(
        save_dir, 'http://'+u3,
        newf))
    print
    time.sleep(2)