Image Scraping with Python (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025

Scraping Is a very essential skill for everyone to get data from any website. In this article, we are going to see how to scrape images from websites using python. For scraping images, we will try different approaches.

Method 1: Using BeautifulSoup and Requests

bs4: Beautiful Soup(bs4) is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. This module does not come built-in with Python. To install this type the below command in the terminal.

pip install bs4

requests: Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. This module also does not come built-in with Python. To install this type the below command in the terminal.

pip install requests

Approach:

Import module
Make requests instance and pass into URL
Pass the requests into a Beautifulsoup() function
Use ‘img’ tag to find them all tag ('src ‘)

Implementation:

Python3 `

import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def getdata(url): r = requests.get(url) return r.text

htmldata = getdata("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/") soup = BeautifulSoup(htmldata, 'html.parser') for item in soup.find_all('img'): print(item['src'])

Output:

https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/cdn-uploads/20201018234700/GFG-RT-DSA-Creative.png https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/cdn-uploads/logo-new-2.svg

Method 2: Using urllib and BeautifulSoup

urllib : It is a Python module that allows you to access, and interact with, websites with their URL. To install this type the below command in the terminal.

pip install urllib

Approach:

Import module
Read URL with urlopen()
Pass the requests into a Beautifulsoup() function
Use ‘img’ tag to find them all tag ('src ‘)

Implementation:

Python3 `

from urllib.request import urlopen from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

htmldata = urlopen('https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/') soup = BeautifulSoup(htmldata, 'html.parser') images = soup.find_all('img')

for item in images: print(item['src'])

Output:

https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/cdn-uploads/20201018234700/GFG-RT-DSA-Creative.png https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/cdn-uploads/logo-new-2.svg