Google Reverse Image Search API

Brief

This api scrapes google reverse image search results using selenium bot and beautifulsoup4 for scraping.

Installation

Import to project folder inside your project folder

from grisa import Grisa

Requirements

Within your wirtual enviroment install requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt

Return format (JSON)

• returns tuple of 2 values
• first value are similar images, which is a list of objects:

{
    'website': website name,
    'description': description,
    'imageurl': url link to image,
    'link': url link to ad listing,
    'position': position in which it was found,
}

Careful, the description is incomplete, containing sometimes only 5 words!

• second are source images, which are same as similar with addition of:

'resolution': (x,y),

API

Check Usage example section for usage example

Grisa class has following methods:

• options_add_argument("option") - Add argument to options
• set_driver_path(DRIVER_PATH)- Set path to chromedriver
• init_binary(BINARY) - Set binary path
• init_driver() - Init driver
• run(ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_IMAGE, accept_cookies=True/False, local_dev=True/False) - Run bot
  • accept_cookies (default: True) -> If you are not logged in to google account, (in selenium browser, which you probably aren't), you need to accept cookies-
    • True: Accept cookies
    • False: Do not accept cookies
  • local_dev (default: True) -> Different way to click on elements on page using selenium
    • True: was used when running on local machine
    • False: was used when deployed to heroku, otherwise wasn't working
• get_page_source() - Get page source
• scrape_similiar(page_source) - Scrape similiar images
• go_to_source() - Go to source image
• scrape_source(page_source) - Scrape source image
• driver_quit() - Quit driver

Usage example:

import os
from grisa import Grisa
 
grisa = Grisa()
grisa.options_add_argument('--headless')
grisa.options_add_argument('--no-sandbox')
grisa.options_add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
grisa.options_add_argument("user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36")
grisa.set_driver_path(PATH_TO_YOU_CHROMEDRIVER)
grisa.init_driver()
grisa.run(ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_IMAGE, accept_cookies=True, local_dev=True)
page_source = grisa.get_page_source()
similiar_img_json = grisa.scrape_similiar(page_source)
grisa.go_to_source()
page_source = grisa.get_page_source()
source_img_json = grisa.scrape_source(page_source)
grisa.driver_quit()