Python library to download bulk of images from Bing.com

Hello, I have been using the python package for months without problems, but for a few weeks the downloaded images have no relation to the search tag and the downloads are repeated cyclically.

I mean if i search for example "box" and try to download 50 images. There are many images that are not related to boxes, and every 8 images they repeat.

Hi, if I use bing.py and downloader.py outside the package they work perfectly. But if I import as it is in the instructions it generates ImportError: cannot import name downloader from partially initialized module bing_image_downloader.

Currently the script downloads the images to a dataset folder in the repo. This is not always desirable.

Modify the signature of downloader.download to specify the output_dir for image downloads.

It would be really useful if out_dir wasn't always appended to os.getcwd(). I think there should be a simple boolean absolute_path for people who want to use their own absolute path.

Hello!, when I put a destination folder the script tries to generate a folder with the name of the path I indicated, for example if I put in path "C:" it doesn't locate the images in that path but tries to create a folder called C:\ which generates an error, is there a way to solve this?

Is there also a way to rename the downloaded file and not generate a folder with the name of each search but keep them all in the same folder?

Thank you very much!

Do you know how to fix this error?

I was hoping to download 50k images but only 7000 images got downloaded.

[!!]Indexing page: 56

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1319, in do_open
    encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1252, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1298, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1247, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1026, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 966, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1414, in connect
    super().connect()
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 938, in connect
    (self.host,self.port), self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 707, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/socket.py", line 752, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "download_images_from_bing.py", line 2, in <module>
    downloader.download('gun', limit=50000, adult_filter_off=True, force_replace=False)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/bing_image_downloader/downloader.py", line 34, in download
    Bing().bing(query, limit, adult)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/bing_image_downloader/bing.py", line 63, in bing
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 543, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1362, in https_open
    context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)
  File "/home/mona/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1321, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution>

from bing_image_downloader import downloader
downloader.download('cat', limit=50000, adult_filter_off=True, force_replace=False)

've tried this yesterday with a couple of queries and it worked completely regulary. But today it is showing some error -

[%] Downloading Image #4 from http://www.zacatecasalminuto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cierra_mina_peñoles_morelos_zac.png [!] Issue getting: http://www.zacatecasalminuto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cierra_mina_peñoles_morelos_zac.png [!] Error:: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xf1' in position 46: ordinal not in range(128)

All explicitly specified Filters other than this small set of list of shorthands are being ignored. In earlier version it wasn't so. Please don't ignore them.

I've noticed when downloading over 30 images or so, sometimes it just can't find more, and it keeps indexing the pages without any success. To counter this, I added a page_limit option that limits the number of pages it indexes. I changed the README as well to include this option, and I also added some prints to show whether it stopped because of the download limit or the page limit.

I've tried this yesterday with a couple of queries and it worked completely fine. But today it is showing some error -

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\Pyhon\bing.py", line 1, in <module>
    from bing_image_downloader import downloader
  File "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\bing_image_downloader\downloader.py", line 6, in <module>
    from bing import Bing
  File "E:\Pyhon\bing.py", line 2, in <module>
    downloader.download('apricot', limit=100,  output_dir='dataset', adult_filter_off=True, force_replace=False, timeout=60, verbose=True)
AttributeError: partially initialized module 'bing_image_downloader.downloader' has no attribute 'download' (most likely due to a circular import)

Process finished with exit code 1