# Image scraping methods

**URL:** <https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/image-scraping-methods/110>\
**Category:** 🤝  Community Help\
**Created:** [February 5, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/image-scraping-methods/110 "2022-02-05T22:01:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![lukaskf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/lukaskf/32/28_2.png) [@lukaskf](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/lukaskf)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/image-scraping-methods/110/1 "2022-02-05T22:01:45Z")

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I’ve been using this [python package](https://github.com/gurugaurav/bing_image_downloader) to scrape images from Bing using a script like this

`from bing_image_downloader import downloader`  
`downloader.download( `  
`"Black Lab", #Query String`  
`limit=100,`  
`output_dir='black_lab_dataset',`  
`adult_filter_off=False,`  
`force_replace=False,`  
`timeout=60,`  
)`

installed using `pip install bing-image-downloader==1.0.4`

Is there a better way to scrape images?

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**Author:** ![brad](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/brad/32/23_2.png) [@brad](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/brad)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/image-scraping-methods/110/2 "2022-02-05T22:16:10Z")

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I’ve seen these Google Images scrapers recommended before, but looks like they haven’t been updated in a while, so not sure if they’re still functional:

- [GitHub - hardikvasa/google-images-download: Python Script to download hundreds of images from 'Google Images'. It is a ready-to-run code!](https://github.com/hardikvasa/google-images-download)
- [GitHub - ohmeow/google\_image\_downloader: Downloading any number of images for a search query](https://github.com/ohmeow/google_image_downloader)