/ImgScrape

Scrapes images from VSCO profiles using selenium and bs4

Primary LanguagePython

ImgScrape

VSCO image scraper. Scrapes images on a profile at highest quality using Selenium & BeautifulSoup. Written in Python3.

Limitations

  • Currently only works on VSCO profiles
  • Does not work on VSCO journals. Only gallerys
  • Only tested on Windows. May need modification for other OSs.

Requirements

  • Chrome Browser
  • Chrome Driver
  • Python 3 & pip
  • Dependencies in requirements.txt

To Install & Run (assuming you have py3)

  1. Download ZIP or clone repository

  2. Install dependencies

    • pip install -r requirements.txt

  3. Download chrome driver

    • https://chromedriver.chromium.org/
    • Be sure your downloaded driver is the same version as the regular chrome browser you have installed. you can check chrome version by going to help>about chrome
    • Unzip and place .exe in the folder: drivers/chrome

  4. Open CMD in program directory and run:

    • python run.py

To Do

  • Add more driver support
  • Clean up code / user input
  • Add support for more than just VSCO
  • Automatically download driver?
  • Fix file naming for scraped websites
  • Fix crash on vsco profiles without "LOAD MORE" button
  • make headless