Error when downloading pics using chrome

[qiuzhewei]

Hi, Following error occcurs when I try to run the script.

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary

Any help will be appreciate!

[caop-kie]

You need to install the chrome browser in your operating system in the first place to use the selenium package.

[madiskoivopuu]

For anyone still having this issue, the problem lies within the regex for parsing the image URL. It gets extra junk in there which breaks the image link. To fix the code, modify google_image_url_from_webpage function in crawler.py to this:

# (line 121)

image_elements = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "islib")
    image_urls = list()
    url_pattern = r"imgurl=\S*?&" # explanation: \S -> match any whitespace character
                                      #                  *? -> match previous token \S between 0 and unlimited times and do so lazily, aka match until the first & and not the last one

    for image_element in image_elements[:max_number]:
        outer_html = image_element.get_attribute("outerHTML")
        re_group = re.search(url_pattern, outer_html)
        if re_group is not None:
            image_url = unquote(re_group.group()[len("imgurl=") : -len("&")])
            image_urls.append(image_url)
    return image_urls