ImageCrawl

Overview

Based on Scrapy, ImageCrawl is a web image crawler that outputs images' origin url and downloads images automatically.
Recently supports:

• Flickr
• Instagram
• Google Image Search
• Bing Image Search

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Scrapy
• GoAgent (if you are working in China mainland and disconnecting with the target websites )

Documentation

You can go to the top level directory of this project and run:

scrapy crawl [spider name]

In this project, the spider name can be Flickr, Instagram, GoogleSearch,BingSearch(no brackets). But you need to edit the file ImageCrawl/spiders/xxx_spider.py before you run the command above.

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For Flickr, you should have your own api_key (see here), and decide your search tag. If you want to change other params, look at the file carefully or get help from Flickr API.

class FlickrSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "Flickr"
    tag='your tag'
    api_key='your api_key'

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For Instagram, you should have your own access_token (see here), and decide your search tag. If you want to change other params, look at the file carefully or get help from Instagram API.

class InstagramSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "Instagram"
    tag='your tag'
    params = {
        'access_token': 'your access_token',
    }

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For Google Image Search, you should decide your search key word. If you want to change other params, look at the file carefully or get help from Google Image API.

class GoogleSearchSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "GoogleSearch"
    key_word='your key_word'

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For Bing Image Search, you should have your own account Key (see here), and decide your search key word. If you want to change other params, look at the file carefully or get help from Bing search API.

class BingSearchSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = "BingSearch"
    key_word='your key_word'
    acctKey = 'your account Key'

You will get a csv folder that stores the crawl result(named with the beginning time of the program) and the images would be downloaded to folder data when the program finished.
If you want to change the image download directory, edit the last line in file ImageCrawl/settings.py:

IMAGES_STORE = 'data'

Note the program works with GoAgent by default, please ensure your GoAgent pre-opened and works well, change or disable GoAgent, see this.