Image Scraper based on Keywords?

[Enigmabomb]

I'm looking for an image scraper based on keywords. If one doesn't exist, I'm about to start writing it. IT doesn't even need a front end, I can just ref it in my php if neccesary.

Here's the functionality i'm looking for. (Pseudo code)

fetchpics( keyword )
query google images (keyword)
scrape picture( num pictures)
place picture in directory called /pictures / keyword[num picture].jpg
return true

So when it's all done, it returns true, and my pictures dir has (For example let's use fish) fish01.jph fish02.jpg fish03.jpg etc etc etc all the way to num pictures.

Thanks for your suggestions,

Josh

 

[chatmasta]

Not hard to make AT ALL.

Taking google images as an example....feed it a query string, scrape the results for the URL of every image, and download it with curl (see here).

 

[ashbeats]

This is a little something I'm using to extract images from yahoo based on keywords. Might help you out..

$tag = "KEYWORD";

$noImageURL = $myurlprefix ."images/notfound.jpg"; //replace with image address


$request =  "http://api.search.yahoo.com/ImageSearchService/V1/imageSearch?appid=YOUR-APP-ID-HERE&query=$tag&results=5&output=php";

@$response = file_get_contents($request);

if ($response != false) {
$phpobj = unserialize($response);


    $ImageBigURL['0'] = $phpobj['ResultSet']['Result']['0']['Url'];
    $ImageBigURL['1'] = $phpobj['ResultSet']['Result']['1']['Url'];


        if ($phpobj['ResultSet']['totalResultsAvailable'] == '0'){
        // IF No Results
            $ImageBigURL['0'] = $noImageURL;
            $ImageBigURL['1'] = $noImageURL;
            
        }

}else{

//If not Found

    $ImageBigURL['0'] = $noImageURL;
    $ImageBigURL['1'] = $noImageURL;
        
}

 

[illusion]

Just download yacg and they got a flickr script with that, pretty easy to use.

 

[Enigmabomb]

illusion: Seems like YACG is no more...
ashbeat: Do you have an API account with Yahoo? Hard to get?


Thanks for the tips!

Josh

 

[ashbeats]

Hiya Josh,

You can get your yahoo dev id here:
http://search.yahooapis.com/webservices/register_application

 

[plepco]

YACG no more? Since when? I was on the very active YACG forum last week and it seems to still be here... seriously what do you mean?

 

[Enigmabomb]

Every official link Ive come across, including those from google points to an empty wordpress site?

Josh

 

[StarkReality]

Busin3ss switched to a new server as far as I know, but the YACG forum and his blog are up again and loading fine...just check again.

 

[Enigmabomb]

I broke down and wrote my own, thanks for all the good info boys!