why couldn't I download images from google with python?

Question

The code helped me download bunch of images from google. It used to work a few days back and now all of the sudden the code breaks.

Code :

# importing google_images_download module 
from google_images_download import google_images_download  

# creating object 
response = google_images_download.googleimagesdownload()  

search_queries = ['Apple', 'Orange', 'Grapes', 'water melon'] 


def downloadimages(query): 
    # keywords is the search query 
    # format is the image file format 
    # limit is the number of images to be downloaded 
    # print urs is to print the image file url 
    # size is the image size which can 
    # be specified manually ("large, medium, icon") 
    # aspect ratio denotes the height width ratio 
    # of images to download. ("tall, square, wide, panoramic") 
    arguments = {"keywords": query, 
                 "format": "jpg", 
                 "limit":4, 
                 "print_urls":True, 
                 "size": "medium", 
                 "aspect_ratio": "panoramic"} 
    try: 
        response.download(arguments) 

    # Handling File NotFound Error     
    except FileNotFoundError:  
        arguments = {"keywords": query, 
                     "format": "jpg", 
                     "limit":4, 
                     "print_urls":True,  
                     "size": "medium"} 

        # Providing arguments for the searched query 
        try: 
            # Downloading the photos based 
            # on the given arguments 
            response.download(arguments)  
        except: 
            pass

# Driver Code 
for query in search_queries: 
    downloadimages(query)  
    print()

Output log:

Item no.: 1 --> Item name = Apple Evaluating... Starting Download...

Unfortunately all 4 could not be downloaded because some images were not downloadable. 0 is all we got for this search filter!

Errors: 0

Item no.: 1 --> Item name = Orange Evaluating... Starting Download...

Unfortunately all 4 could not be downloaded because some images were not downloadable. 0 is all we got for this search filter!

Errors: 0

Item no.: 1 --> Item name = Grapes Evaluating... Starting Download...

Unfortunately all 4 could not be downloaded because some images were not downloadable. 0 is all we got for this search filter!

Errors: 0

Item no.: 1 --> Item name = water melon Evaluating... Starting Download...

Unfortunately all 4 could not be downloaded because some images were not downloadable. 0 is all we got for this search filter!

Errors: 0

This actually create a folder but no images in it.

Answer 1

google_images_download project is no longer seems compatible wrt Google APIs.

As an alternative you can try simple_image_download.