Google image download with python cannot download images

Question

I\'m using google_images_download library to download top 20 images for a keyword. It\'s worked perfectly when I\'m using it last days. Code is as follows.

Answer 1

I faced the same issue with google-image-download, which used to work perfect earlier! I have an alternative that I would like to suggest, which should solve the problem.

Solution: Instead of using google-image-download for Python, use bing-image-downloader, that downloads from Bing! search engine.

Steps:

Step 1: Install the library by using: pip install bing-image-downloader

Step 2:

from bing_image_downloader import downloader
downloader.download(query_string, limit=100,  output_dir='dataset', 
adult_filter_off=True, force_replace=False, timeout=60)

That's it! All you would need to do is to add your image topic to the query_string.

Note:

Parameters that you can further tweak:

query_string : String to be searched.

limit : (optional, default is 100) Number of images to download.

output_dir : (optional, default is 'dataset') Name of output dir.

adult_filter_off : (optional, default is True) Enable of disable adult filteration.

force_replace : (optional, default is False) Delete folder if present and start a fresh download.

timeout : (optional, default is 60) timeout for connection in seconds.

Further Reference: https://pypi.org/project/bing-image-downloader/