Bonus Lesson: Download Images
Explore how to download images from web pages using Puppeteer. Learn to identify the image source via DOM selectors, extract the source URL, and save images locally by processing HTTP streams. This lesson equips you with practical skills to automate image retrieval during web scraping projects.
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Images are an integral part of modern web design, enhancing websites’ visual appeal and user experience. In this lesson, we’ll learn how to acquire images from the internet and save them to our local devices. There can be scenarios where we need to download and save images in addition to scraping text data. Let’s learn how to do this in Puppeteer.
Approach
The HTML <img> element is the fundamental element that is used to embed images into web pages. The src attribute in the img element specifies the location where the image is stored. If we can figure out this location from src attribute via Puppeteer, we can directly download the image from where it is stored. This can be quickly done in ...