pinterest-web-scraper

"Scraping Visually Similar Images from Pinterest"

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage

Installation

1. Download the repository

Clone the base repository onto your desktop with git as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/SwatiModi/pinterest-web-scraper

2. Install necessary dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install chrome driver

$ wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.41/chromedriver_linux64.zip
$ unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip

$ sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
$ sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/chromedriver

Usage

I have tried a example on query "mens checked shirt" and pushed the resultant csv and folder here in the repo.

1. Search for some product (eg. Black shoes)

$ python pinterest.py 

or pass the search query category as a argument

$ python pinterest.py --category <search query>

This will create a CSV of URLs to pins for the given search query

2. Download the visually similar images

$ python dowload_similar_images.py 

This script reads all the URLs from the CSV created by previous script. For each pin URL, it downloads the visually similar images and saved in respective folders pin-wise.

This will create a hierarchy of folders and images as follows:

NOTE:

Web Scraping from many websites is Illegal.
This project is just for Learning and Fun.