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Hi All,

Images are stored in the local directory for my project.

Can these files be downloaded along with the items I scraped?

Thanks

Hey MxLei,

I'm not sure to understand correctly what you expect, could you explain a bit more? Thanks.

Pablo

I'm not sure if you can see this, but https://app.scrapinghub.com/p/230228/2/1/items

Although I see images field being populated by image information such as hash, but I don't see images in the dashboard or api?

Hi everyone,

I have the same question too. 

So, images scrap as 3 fields - url, path, checksum, but question is how to download the image binary? 

I suspect that "path" needs to be appended to something, but failed to construct it myself.

Thanks!

@frasl,

Your full S3 path would need to be appended to the "path" returned in your items.  So something like:

url = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/your-bucket/your-folder/" + path

What I would like to know is if there is a way to construct this programmatically in the scraper code itself.  It seems like the "images" object is not available until after I've uploaded my code to ScrapingHub?  

Tom,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I did see this doc, but I don't think it covers what I'm looking for.  I'm not looking for the actual image data, but rather a clean S3 path which can be used immediately after the scrape.  For example, my current code returns a scrapy.Field that contains this dictionary:

{"url":"http://www.locatoronline.com/photos/fullsize/386978_1.jpg","path":"full/1c11194780b4d4ef06cf5381a285f4045944f1b1.jpg","checksum":"17341778f9acfb7b5b384fe1bc532e49"}

I'ld like to create another scrapyField that appends my base S3 URL to "path" . Currently I have to do this in python after the scrape is complete.  So, for this example I'd have another field, say imagePath, that contains:   

https://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket/my-folder/full/1c11194780b4d4ef06cf5381a285f4045944f1b1.jpg

Yep, this looks about right. Cool, thanks!

Hello again,

Ok, sorry guys, for messing the topic with 2 slightly different problems, I thought akochanowicz has the same issue :-)

so, what if there's no Amazon S3, just file storage:

- What base path to set for the image pipeline if I use scrapinghub? Is it possible to use scrapinghub filesystem for the images? Maybe, restrictions for free accounts? 

- How do I download images afterwards? I have set path as 

IMAGES_STORE = 'images' , and it looks like images get successfully downloaded, I receive entries like:

So how do I fetch such an image? 

Thanks!