fetch-image

node-fetch-image

Fetch images from web.

Example

• Fetch me 1000 pictures of Katy Perry to katyp-pics folder and name them katyp-0.jpg, katyp-1.png ...

bin/fim 'katy perry' -d katyp-pics -n 1000 -p 'katyp-'

• Give me 1000 image links of Katy Perry (without downloading them).

bin/fim 'katy perry' -n 1000

Output:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Katy_Perry_November_2014.jpg/220px-Katy_Perry_November_2014.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Katy_Perry_performing.jpg/170px-Katy_Perry_performing.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Katy_Perry%E2%80%93Zenith_Paris.jpg/170px-Katy_Perry%E2%80%93Zenith_Paris.jpg
...

Install

npm install -g fetch-image

Usage

Usage: fim <keyword> [options]
  -d, --directory             output directory, default is ''. 
                              If empty, ouput image links instead of download.
  -n, --num-images            number of images to download, default is 100.
  -p, --prefix                file prefix, default is ''
  --num-google-results        number of google search image results to start, 
                              default is 100.

How it works

• Send a query to google image search.
• Parse the google search result page and extract related site links.
• Scrape each site for images links related to the query.
• Download each image to given folder.