Download image file from the HTML page source

Question:

I am writing a scraper that downloads all the image files from a HTML page and saves them to a specific folder. All the images are part of the HTML page.

Asked By: Mohit Ranka

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Answers:

You have to download the page and parse html document, find your image with regex and download it.. You can use urllib2 for downloading and Beautiful Soup for parsing html file.

Answered By: user20955

Use htmllib to extract all img tags (override do_img), then use urllib2 to download all the images.

Answered By: Martin v. Löwis

Here is some code to download all the images from the supplied URL, and save them in the specified output folder. You can modify it to your own needs.

"""
dumpimages.py
    Downloads all the images on the supplied URL, and saves them to the
    specified output file ("/test/" by default)

Usage:
    python dumpimages.py http://example.com/ [output]
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
from urllib.request import (
    urlopen, urlparse, urlunparse, urlretrieve)
import os
import sys

def main(url, out_folder="/test/"):
    """Downloads all the images at 'url' to /test/"""
    soup = bs(urlopen(url))
    parsed = list(urlparse(url))

    for image in soup.findAll("img"):
        print("Image: %(src)s" % image)
        filename = image["src"].split("/")[-1]
        parsed[2] = image["src"]
        outpath = os.path.join(out_folder, filename)
        if image["src"].lower().startswith("http"):
            urlretrieve(image["src"], outpath)
        else:
            urlretrieve(urlunparse(parsed), outpath)

def _usage():
    print("usage: python dumpimages.py http://example.com [outpath]")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    url = sys.argv[-1]
    out_folder = "/test/"
    if not url.lower().startswith("http"):
        out_folder = sys.argv[-1]
        url = sys.argv[-2]
        if not url.lower().startswith("http"):
            _usage()
            sys.exit(-1)
    main(url, out_folder)

Edit: You can specify the output folder now.

Answered By: Ryan Ginstrom

And this is function for download one image:

def download_photo(self, img_url, filename):
    file_path = "%s%s" % (DOWNLOADED_IMAGE_PATH, filename)
    downloaded_image = file(file_path, "wb")

    image_on_web = urllib.urlopen(img_url)
    while True:
        buf = image_on_web.read(65536)
        if len(buf) == 0:
            break
        downloaded_image.write(buf)
    downloaded_image.close()
    image_on_web.close()

    return file_path
Answered By: Dingo

Ryan’s solution is good, but fails if the image source URLs are absolute URLs or anything that doesn’t give a good result when simply concatenated to the main page URL. urljoin recognizes absolute vs. relative URLs, so replace the loop in the middle with:

for image in soup.findAll("img"):
    print "Image: %(src)s" % image
    image_url = urlparse.urljoin(url, image['src'])
    filename = image["src"].split("/")[-1]
    outpath = os.path.join(out_folder, filename)
    urlretrieve(image_url, outpath)
Answered By: Catherine Devlin

If the request need an authorization refer to this one:

r_img = requests.get(img_url, auth=(username, password)) 
f = open('000000.jpg','wb') 
f.write(r_img.content) 
f.close()
Answered By: Lerner Zhang

Based on code here

Removing some lines of code, you’ll get only the images img tags.

Uses Python 3+ Requests, BeautifulSoup and other standard libraries.

import os, sys
import requests
from urllib import parse
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
def savePageImages(url, imagespath='images'):
    def soupfindnSave(pagefolder, tag2find='img', inner='src'):
        if not os.path.exists(pagefolder): # create only once
            os.mkdir(pagefolder)
        for res in soup.findAll(tag2find):  
            if res.has_attr(inner): # check inner tag (file object) MUST exists
                try:
                    filename, ext = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(res[inner])) # get name and extension
                    filename = re.sub('W+', '', filename) + ext # clean special chars from name
                    fileurl = parse.urljoin(url, res.get(inner))
                    filepath = os.path.join(pagefolder, filename)
                    if not os.path.isfile(filepath): # was not downloaded
                        with open(filepath, 'wb') as file:
                            filebin = session.get(fileurl)
                            file.write(filebin.content)
                except Exception as exc:
                    print(exc, file=sys.stderr)   
    session = requests.Session()
    #... whatever other requests config you need here
    response = session.get(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
    soupfindnSave(imagespath, 'img', 'src')

Use like this bellow to save the google.com page images in a folder google_images:

savePageImages('https://www.google.com', 'google_images')
Answered By: imbr
import urllib.request as req

with req.urlopen(image_link) as d, open(image_location, "wb") as image_object:
    data = d.read()
    image_object.write(data)
Answered By: Hassan Zamir
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