script to scrape images from google images

[rostam24]

the title says it all
but I have been thinking of getting into screen savers etc.
Anyone know of a good script for this
thanks

 

[stmadeveloper]

There is one in Niche Site Special 2 that scrapes the thumbnails and collects the urls as well as well as content from ezinearticles and youtube videos.

I'll poke around with it and see if I've got time to make it do just what you want.... don't hold your breath though - I'm busy these days.

Might already be some code out there ready to go.

 

[bazaa]

why don't you just use the flickr api? The quality will probably be higher especially for a screensaver.. Yahoo also has an image search api.

 

[Houdas]

Easy job if you know a bit of PHP and regular expressions. But as others said, you can always use an existing software or API for this. BTW is it legal to scrape various images and make screensavers from them?

 

[bazaa]

On flickr you could use the API to only find images that are allowed to be used in a commercial setting (creative commons)

 

[rostam24]

Thanks for the input. i will look into using the flickr api, but I was thinking more along the lines of commercially viable images ie movie stars so that I could target a younger crowd who use high profit items like ringtones more often
thanks

 

[emp]

Same applies.... wget with a regex grep and you are set.
You will be running into a few copyright problems tho.

::emp::

 

[stmadeveloper]

Copy rights = "you have the right to copy", and markov it . I think at least that's what I read somewhere.

 

[rostam24]

copyright is the type of problem i will only have to worry about once i am making money
those are good problems to solve
if it doesnt make money to begin with, i wont even have to worry about copyright
thanks for the help

 

[Supergeek]

You could scrape the images live. Then, you're not providing third-party content, it's all downloaded on the fly... Makes your installation a lot smaller too (lower bandwidth charges for your server). Heck, you could make the screensaver auto-patch like a lot of games, etc, so you can recode it after releases, or at least check for new versions.