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Single-Thread Single-Search

Use this method as a backup in case multithreading image searhces is causing you problems

Quick Start

from image_fetcher.image_fetcher import download_images
from image_fetcher.browsers import Browser, BrowserType

download_images(
        search_term='Dog', 
        total_images=10,  
        headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36'},
        browser=Browser(BrowserType.CHROME, 'chromedriver.exe')
    )

Key arguments

• search_term: The search term to google image search
• total_images: How many images you want downloaded for each of these search terms
• headers: Browser headers the library uses when making requests. Just use this example if you're not sure what to do. For more information go to https://urllib3.readthedocs.io
• browser: Browser object to fetch URL's from. This must be an instance of a Browser which takes browser type and the path to it's driver executable. For more information jump to the browser installation guides section

Optional Arguments

• extensions: List of acceptable file extensions (default is jpg & png)
• directories: Names of folder to save images to (default is the same names as the search_terms)
• progress_bar: Whether to display a progress bar (default is True)
• verbose:Whether to print total downloaded & total ignored at the end (default is True)