So you want to download images without a browser.. 

challenge accepted 3:43:41 PM

 

[sourcecode language=”python”]

#Image Site Downloader
#USAGE: python igmurdownloader.py <category> <limit>

import sys, requests, os, logging, bs4, re

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format="%(asctime)s – %(levelname)s – %(message)s")

logging.disable(logging.CRITICAL)
if len(sys.argv) == 3:
logging.info("Command line argument 3")
#TODO: get category, and limit
category = sys.argv[1]
limit = sys.argv[2]
imgur = "https://imgur.com/"
try:
#TODO: make request to https://imgur.com/search?q=
res = requests.get(imgur + "search?q=" + category)
res.raise_for_status()
logging.info("Request successful")
imgur_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")
#TODO: find all img tages
imgur_image_list = imgur_soup.select(".image-list-link > img")
dir = None
#CREATE DIRECTORY FOR IMAGES
if not os.path.exists( os.path.abspath("imgur_images") ):
dir = os.mkdir("imgur_images")
else: dir = os.path.abspath("imgur_images")
#TODO: loop through tags and download into directory
iterator = 0
while iterator < int(limit):
image = imgur_image_list[iterator]
#TODO GET SRC OF IMAGE
image_src = image.get("src")
image_src = "http:" + image_src
logging.info("Image Url: " + str( image_src ))
#TODO: make request to source
try:
image_res = requests.get(image_src)
image_res.raise_for_status()
image_ext = re.compile(r"(\w{3})$")
image_ext = image_ext.search(image_src)
ext = "jpg"
if image_ext:
ext = image_ext.groups()[0]
image_file_name = "imgur_foto" + str(iterator) + "." + ext
#TODO: create file in ‘wb’ mode
image_file = open(os.path.join(dir, image_file_name), "wb")
logging.info("File created: " + image_file_name)

#TODO: write into file
for chunk in image_res.iter_content(10000):
image_file.write(chunk)
logging.info("Image has completed download")
except Exception as err:
logging.error("Image Download Error: " + str( err ))
iterator += 1
except Exception as err:
logging.error( str( err ))

else:
logging.warning("USAGE: python isd.py <category> <limit>")

[/sourcecode]

And that is it! Improvement suggestions are welcomed!

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