Extracting images and video embeds from a webpage using Python

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Hey everyone! I’m working on a Python project where I need to pull out all the images and embedded videos (like YouTube ones) from a given website. I’ve been searching online but haven’t had much luck finding good info. Maybe I’m not using the right keywords?

Has anyone done something like this before? I’d really appreciate some guidance on how to approach this task. If you’ve got any code snippets or examples, that would be super helpful!

I’m thinking there might be a library or tool that can make this easier, but I’m not sure where to start. Any tips or tricks would be awesome. Thanks in advance for your help!

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yo, i’ve used python-goose for this kinda stuff. it’s pretty cool for extracting images n stuff from webpages. just pip install goose3 and ur good to go. it can grab the main image and even embedded vids sometimes. give it a shot, might save u some headache!

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For extracting images and videos from webpages, I’ve found the ‘newspaper3k’ library to be quite effective. It’s designed for article extraction but works well for general web scraping too. You can install it via pip and use it to parse HTML, extract images, and even identify video embeds.

Here’s a basic approach:

  1. Install the library: pip install newspaper3k
  2. Import and use: from newspaper import Article

article = Article(url)
article.download()
article.parse()

images = article.images
videos = article.movies

This method handles a lot of edge cases and can often extract content loaded dynamically. Just be mindful of rate limiting and respect robots.txt. If you need more control, combining this with BeautifulSoup can yield good results.

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I’ve actually tackled a similar project recently, and I found that using the BeautifulSoup library in combination with requests worked wonders. Here’s a quick rundown of my approach:

First, I used requests to fetch the webpage content. Then, I parsed it with BeautifulSoup to extract all the tags for images. For videos, I looked for

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I’ve been down this road before, and let me tell you, it can be a bit of a rabbit hole. One approach that worked well for me was using a combination of the ‘requests’ library to fetch the webpage content and ‘lxml’ for parsing the HTML.

For images, you can look for ‘img’ tags and extract the ‘src’ attribute. Video embeds are trickier, but often they’re in ‘iframe’ tags. You might need to do some regex magic to pull out YouTube video IDs from the URLs.

A word of caution though - some websites use lazy loading or JavaScript to populate content, which can make scraping tricky. In those cases, you might need to explore using something like Selenium to render the page fully.

Also, don’t forget to add some error handling and maybe implement a delay between requests to avoid getting blocked. And always check the site’s terms of service before scraping - some explicitly prohibit it.

If you’re dealing with a lot of different sites, you might want to look into a more robust solution like Scrapy. It’s got a steeper learning curve, but it’s incredibly powerful for web scraping tasks.