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.. _topics-images:
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Downloading Images
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Downloading Item Images
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.. currentmodule:: scrapy.contrib.pipeline.images
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the same image, to that queue. This avoids downloading the same image more than
once when it's shared by several items.
The `Python Imaging Library`_ is used for thumbnailing and normalizing images
to JPEG/RGB format, so you need to install that library in order to use the
images pipeline.
.. _Python Imaging Library: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
Using the Images Pipeline
=========================
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until the images have finish downloading (or fail for some reason).
4. When the images finish downloading (or fail for some reason) the images gets
another field populated with the data of the images downloaded, for example,
``images``. This attribute is a list of dictionaries containing information
about the image downloaded, such as the downloaded path, and the original
scraped url. This images in the list of the ``images`` field retains the
same order of the original ``image_urls`` field, which is useful if you
decide to use the first image in the list as the primary image.
another field populated with the path of the images downloaded, for example,
``image_paths``. This attribute is a list of dictionaries containing
information about the image downloaded, such as the downloaded path, and the
original scraped url. This images in the list of the ``image_paths`` field
would retain the same order of the original ``image_urls`` field, which is
useful if you decide to use the first image in the list as the primary
image.
.. setting:: IMAGES_DIR
.. setting:: IMAGES_STORE
IMAGES_STORE setting
--------------------
The first thing we need to do is tell the pipeline where to store the
downloaded images, by setting :setting:`IMAGES_DIR`::
downloaded images, through the :setting:`IMAGES_STORE` setting::
IMAGES_DIR = '/path/to/valid/dir'
IMAGES_STORE = '/path/to/valid/dir'
Then, as seen on the workflow, the pipeline will get the URLs of the images to
download from the item. In order to do this, you must override the
:meth:`~ImagesPipeline.get_media_requests` method and return a Request for each
image URL::
def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
for image_url in item['image_urls']:
yield Request(image_url)
def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
for image_url in item['image_urls']:
yield Request(image_url)
Those requests will be processed by the pipeline, and they have finished
downloading the results will be sent to the
:meth:`~ImagesPipeline.item_completed` method, as a list of dictionaries. Each
dictionary will contain status and information about the download, and the list
of dictionaries will retain the original order of the requests returned from
the :meth:`~ImagesPipeline.get_media_requests` method::
Those requests will be processed by the pipeline and, when they have finished
downloading, the results will be sent to the
:meth:`~ImagesPipeline.item_completed` method, as a list of 2-element tuples.
Each tuple will contain ``(success, image_info_or_failure)`` where:
results = [(True, 'path#checksum'), ..., (False, Failure)]
* ``success`` is a boolean which is ``True`` if the image was downloading
successfully or ``False`` if it failed for some reason
There is one additional method: :meth:`~ImagesPipeline.item_completed` which
must return the output value that will be sent to further item pipeline stages,
so you must return (or drop) the item as in any pipeline.
* ``image_info_or_error`` is a dict containing the following keys (if success
is ``True``) or a `Twisted Failure`_ if there was a problem.
We will override it to store the resulting image paths (passed in results) back
in the item::
* ``url`` - the url where the image was downloaded from. This is the url of
the request returned from the :meth:`~ImagesPipeline.get_media_requests`
method.
# XXX: improve this example and add a condition for dropping images
def item_completed(self, results, item, info):
item['image_paths'] = [result.split('#')[0] for succes, result in results if succes]
* ``path`` - the path (relative to :setting:`IMAGES_STORE`) where the image
was stored
return item
* ``checksum`` - a `MD5`_ hash of the image contents
So, the complete example of our pipeline looks like this::
.. _Twisted Failure: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/8.2.0/api/twisted.python.failure.Failure.html
.. _MD5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
from scrapy.contrib.pipeline.images import ImagesPipeline
The list of tuples received by :meth:`~ImagesPipeline.item_completed` is
guaranteed to retain the same order of the requests returned from the
:meth:`~ImagesPipeline.get_media_requests` method.
Here's a typical an example value of ``results`` argument::
# XXX: improve this example and add a condition for dropping images
[(True,
{'checksum': '2b00042f7481c7b056c4b410d28f33cf',
'path': '7d97e98f8af710c7e7fe703abc8f639e0ee507c4.jpg',
'url': 'http://www.example.com/images/product1.jpg'}),
(True,
{'checksum': 'b9628c4ab9b595f72f280b90c4fd093d',
'path': '1ca5879492b8fd606df1964ea3c1e2f4520f076f',
'url': 'http://www.example.com/images/product2.jpg'}),
(False,
Failure(...))]
class MyImagesPipeline(ImagesPipeline):
The :meth:`~ImagesPipeline.item_completed` method must return the output that
will be sent to further item pipeline stages, so you must return (or drop) the
item, as you would in any pipeline.
def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
for image_url in item['image_urls']:
yield Request(image_url)
Here is an example of :meth:`~ImagesPipeline.item_completed` method where we
store the downloaded image paths (passed in results) in the ``image_paths``
item field, and we drop the item if it doesn't contain any images::
def item_completed(self, results, item, info):
item['image_paths'] = [result.split('#')[0] for succes, result in results if succes]
from scrapy.core.exceptions import DropItem
return item
def item_completed(self, results, item, info):
image_paths = [info['path'] for success, info in results if success]
if not image_paths:
raise DropItem("Item contains no images")
item['image_paths'] = image_paths
return item
So, the complete example of our pipeline would look like this::
from scrapy.contrib.pipeline.images import ImagesPipeline
from scrapy.core.exceptions import DropItem
class MyImagesPipeline(ImagesPipeline):
def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
for image_url in item['image_urls']:
yield Request(image_url)
def item_completed(self, results, item, info):
image_paths = [info['path'] for success, info in results if success]
if not image_paths:
raise DropItem("Item contains no images")
item['image_paths'] = image_paths
return item
.. _topics-images-expiration:
Image expiration
-----------------
----------------
.. setting:: IMAGES_EXPIRES
The Image Pipeline avoids downloading images that were downloaded recently. To
adjust this delay use the :setting:`IMAGES_EXPIRES` setting, which specifies
the delay in days::
adjust this retention delay use the :setting:`IMAGES_EXPIRES` setting, which
specifies the delay in number of days::
# 90 days of delay for image expiration
IMAGES_EXPIRES = 90
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In order use this feature you must set the :attr:`~ImagesPipeline.THUMBS`
to a tuple of ``(size_name, (width, height))`` tuples.
The `Python Imaging Library`_ is used for thumbnailing, so you need that
library.
.. _Python Imaging Library: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
Here are some examples examples.
Using numeric names::
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When you use this feature, the Images Pipeline will create thumbnails of the
each specified size with this format::
IMAGES_DIR/thumbs/<image_id>/<size_name>.jpg
IMAGES_STORE/thumbs/<image_id>/<size_name>.jpg
Where:
* ``<image_id>`` is the `SHA1 hash`_ of the image url
* and ``<size_name>`` is the one specified in ``THUMBS`` attribute
* ``<size_name>`` is the one specified in the ``THUMBS`` attribute
.. _SHA1 hash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_hash_functions
Example with previous THUMB attribute::
Example with using ``50`` and ``110`` thumbnail names::
IMAGES_DIR/thumbs/63bbfea82b8880ed33cdb762aa11fab722a90a24/50.jpg
IMAGES_DIR/thumbs/63bbfea82b8880ed33cdb762aa11fab722a90a24/110.jpg
IMAGES_DIR/thumbs/63bbfea82b8880ed33cdb762aa11fab722a90a24/270.jpg
IMAGES_STORE/thumbs/63bbfea82b8880ed33cdb762aa11fab722a90a24/50.jpg
IMAGES_STORE/thumbs/63bbfea82b8880ed33cdb762aa11fab722a90a24/110.jpg
Example with using ``small`` and ``big`` thumbnail names::
IMAGES_STORE/thumbs/63bbfea82b8880ed33cdb762aa11fab722a90a24/small.jpg
IMAGES_STORE/thumbs/63bbfea82b8880ed33cdb762aa11fab722a90a24/big.jpg
.. _topics-images-size:
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A pipeline to download images attached to items, for example product images.
To enable this pipeline you must set :setting:`IMAGES_DIR` to a valid
directory that will be used for storing the downloaded images.
.. method:: store_image(key, image, buf, info)
Override this method with specific code to persist an image.
This method is used to persist the full image and any defined
thumbnail, one a time.
Return value is ignored.
.. method:: stat_key(key, info)
Override this method with specific code to stat an image.
This method should return and dictionary with two parameters:
* ``last_modified``: the last modification time in seconds since the epoch
* ``checksum``: the md5sum of the content of the stored image if found
If an exception is raised or ``last_modified`` is ``None``, then the image
will be re-downloaded.
If the difference in days between last_modified and now is greater than
:setting:`IMAGES_EXPIRES` settings, then the image will be re-downloaded
The checksum value is appended to returned image path after a hash sign
(#), if ``checksum`` is ``None``, then nothing is appended including the
hash sign.
To enable this pipeline you must set :setting:`IMAGES_STORE` to a valid
directory that will be used for storing the downloaded images. Otherwise the
pipeline will remain disabled, even if you include it in the
:setting:`ITEM_PIPELINES` setting.
.. method:: get_media_requests(item, info)
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Must return ``None`` or an iterable.
By default it returns ``None`` (no images to download).
By default it returns ``None`` which means there are no images to
download for the item.
.. method:: item_completed(results, item, info)
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The output of this method is used as the output of the Image Pipeline
stage.
This method typically returns the item itself or raises a
This method must returns the item itself or raise a
:exc:`~scrapy.core.exceptions.DropItem` exception.
By default, it returns the item.
.. attribute:: THUMBS
Thumbnail generation configuration, see :ref:`topics-images-thumbnails`.
List of thumbnails to generate for the images. See
:ref:`topics-images-thumbnails`.