google_images_download

Reference

(https://github.com/hardikvasa/google-images-download#troubleshooting-errors-issues)

Library

import os
from google_images_download import google_images_download

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

Sample Code

# keyws   = 'cats with mustaches'
# keyws   = 'sky'
keyws   = '天丼'

limit   = 10
chromedriver = '/content/gdrive/xxx/chromedriver'
offset  = None  # how many links to skip
color_type	= None # color type you want to apply to the images.
                  #  [full-color, black-and-white, transparent]
size    = None  #relative size of the image to be downloaded. 
                #[large, medium, icon, >400*300, >640*480, >800*600, 
                # >1024*768, >2MP, >4MP, >6MP, >8MP, >10MP, >12MP, >15MP, >20MP, >40MP, >70MP]
output_directory = '/content/gdrive/My Drive/xxx/images'
usage_rights	= None #Very important! Check the doc


arguments = {
    "keywords": keyws,
    "limit": limit,
    "chromedriver": chromedriver,
    "offset": offset,
    "color_type": color_type,
    "size": size, 
#    'output_directory': output_directory, 
    "usage_rights": usage_rights
    }   #creating list of arguments

response  = google_images_download.googleimagesdownload()   #class instantiation
response.download(arguments)  

# image_path = '/content/gdrive/My Drive/.../'
image_path = '/content/downloads/'

dataset = [img_name for img_name in os.listdir(image_path + keyws + '/')]

dataset[:10]  #Peek the first ten

plt.figure(figsize= (5, 3))
plt.imshow(plt.imread(image_path + keyws + '/' + dataset[0] ) )
plt.grid(b=None) #remove grid
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.show()

plt.figure(figsize= (5, 3))
plt.imshow(plt.imread(image_path + keyws + '/' + dataset[3] ) )
plt.grid(b=None) #remove grid
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.show()