How to download google image search results in Python

Use the Google Custom Search for what you want to achieve. See @i08in's answer of Python - Download Images from google Image search? it has great description, script samples and libraries references.

To download any number of images from Google image search using Selenium:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import os
import json
import urllib2
import sys
import time

# adding path to geckodriver to the OS environment variable
# assuming that it is stored at the same path as this script
os.environ["PATH"] += os.pathsep + os.getcwd()
download_path = "dataset/"

def main():
    searchtext = sys.argv[1] # the search query
    num_requested = int(sys.argv[2]) # number of images to download
    number_of_scrolls = num_requested / 400 + 1 
    # number_of_scrolls * 400 images will be opened in the browser

    if not os.path.exists(download_path + searchtext.replace(" ", "_")):
        os.makedirs(download_path + searchtext.replace(" ", "_"))

    url = "https://www.google.co.in/search?q="+searchtext+"&source=lnms&tbm=isch"
    driver = webdriver.Firefox()
    driver.get(url)

    headers = {}
    headers['User-Agent'] = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36"
    extensions = {"jpg", "jpeg", "png", "gif"}
    img_count = 0
    downloaded_img_count = 0

    for _ in xrange(number_of_scrolls):
        for __ in xrange(10):
            # multiple scrolls needed to show all 400 images
            driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0, 1000000)")
            time.sleep(0.2)
        # to load next 400 images
        time.sleep(0.5)
        try:
            driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@value='Show more results']").click()
        except Exception as e:
            print "Less images found:", e
            break

    # imges = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[@class="rg_meta"]') # not working anymore
    imges = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[contains(@class,"rg_meta")]')
    print "Total images:", len(imges), "\n"
    for img in imges:
        img_count += 1
        img_url = json.loads(img.get_attribute('innerHTML'))["ou"]
        img_type = json.loads(img.get_attribute('innerHTML'))["ity"]
        print "Downloading image", img_count, ": ", img_url
        try:
            if img_type not in extensions:
                img_type = "jpg"
            req = urllib2.Request(img_url, headers=headers)
            raw_img = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
            f = open(download_path+searchtext.replace(" ", "_")+"/"+str(downloaded_img_count)+"."+img_type, "wb")
            f.write(raw_img)
            f.close
            downloaded_img_count += 1
        except Exception as e:
            print "Download failed:", e
        finally:
            print
        if downloaded_img_count >= num_requested:
            break

    print "Total downloaded: ", downloaded_img_count, "/", img_count
    driver.quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Full code is here.

Improving a bit on Ravi Hirani's answer the simplest way is to go by this :

from icrawler.builtin import GoogleImageCrawler

google_crawler = GoogleImageCrawler(storage={'root_dir': 'D:\\projects\\data core\\helmet detection\\images'})
google_crawler.crawl(keyword='cat', max_num=100)

Source : https://pypi.org/project/icrawler/

Make sure you install icrawler library first, use.

pip install icrawler

from icrawler.builtin import GoogleImageCrawler
google_Crawler = GoogleImageCrawler(storage = {'root_dir': r'write the name of the directory you want to save to here'})
google_Crawler.crawl(keyword = 'sad human faces', max_num = 800)