Web Scraping (Downloading) Google Images using Python + Selenium Webdriver

What's up, y'all! In this video we'll write a Python script from scratch that uses Selenium web automation and testing library to web scrape and download images from Google Images. We'll dive deep into understanding the (very simple) code behind it. Also, this video is made to be as approachable for beginners as possible. So, if it's your first introduction to web scraping - fear not - we'll go through the whole process starting from installing the Selenium library in Python all the way to having a working Python script. The video also has time stamps, so feel free to jump around. Hope you enjoy!

⏳Time stamps⏳
00:00 Intro
01:36 YOLOv5 Series
02:50 Installing Selenium and Beautiful Soup (bs4)
05:55 Launching automated google chrome browser
09:02 Is web scraping legal?
13:55 How the web scraper is going to work
20:30 Clicking on image containers
29:45 Waiting for high resolution images to load
39:44 Code to download the images
43:27 Testing the script
47:31 Outro

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[mukilankrishnakumar]

Came for getting the script, stayed for the tutorial!! Thanks man.

[MrStgg]

Thank you for the nice tutorial!
As mentioned before, the div boxes and selenium code have to be updated.

[daviduday]

Google has changed the div boxes and there are some changes in the selenium updates but I have been able to download images by changing according to div boxes and updates. Thank you for your explanation it helped a lot while modifying the code. (Спасибо)

[vehimii]

I was saving image urls with pyautogui, this way is a miracle for me :D Thank you soo much!

[shrishailgajbhar]

One of the most complete tutorial with really good explanation. Thanks for the same.

[laurentk]

Hey man really interesting videos you got there ! I can't believe that u haven't more subscribers, I was wondering where are u from? And did you already did some AI with unity ? I could be a very nice video to watch tho

[ezekiel]

this was my first python project. thank you so much! it was fun figuring it out with you

[harithasivan]

I cant thank you enough..!! This video helped alotttt... Keep up the good work man.. Thank you so much

[devanshkaushik]

It was awesome!!! Thanks man.. It will help me with my college project

[chetansinghkachhawa]

been looking for this tutorial long time, awesome tutorial!!!

[hussainbergthesalafi]

finally, the man is back with web scraping

[cyriljchan]

learnt a lot to with regards to web scraping, thanksthanksthanks ! ! !

[willyhorizont]

Great tutorial and explanation thank you!

[Frostbyte-Game-Studio]

this is a very useful and well-made tutorial thanks for the video

[mateuscoutinhomarim]

Awesome man, you've saved me a lot of time. Thanks!

[zdtuzwz]

Very helpful tutorial. Is it possible to thread the code in order to make it faster? Because it still seems slow by a computer's standard... I want to download images

[jemimahgreen]

I am having a problem @ 21:36 where I am supposed to click the image.
My code is:
driver.find_element(by=By.XPATH,
but the image is not being clicked. the xpath is correct and since Selenium changed the find_element_by_xpath i used the new find element method.
How can I solve this problem??

[yasserahmed]

Thanks for your great video
I have 2 questions:
-How Can I open chrome browser with default profile?
-Your code works with normal links but It don`t work with blob links.Please tell me hot to download those links

[dtory]

got this error:

error why: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Charles\Desktop\Hack\DB\Hex\QR\search.py", line 1, in <module>
import bs4
File
_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py", l
ine 175
except Exception, e:

SyntaxError: multiple exception types must be parenthesized

why

[christianhoole]

Hey Ivan, Thank you so much for making this video. Several of your videos have helped me immensely so far. I would appreciate some advice.

It appears that when I run the scraper it thinks it's reached the end of the page when it gets to an ad block embedded within the search results. It's a bit like the "related searches" problem you mentioned. I can't seem to figure out how to make it ignore these ad blocks. The way it is now it only lets me download about 20 images if these ad blocks show up.

Any help would be wonderful. Thank you!