Image_Downloader_Flask

A web app to scrape and download images from these websites - Idlebrain, Ragalahari, Cinejosh and Blogspot/tollywoodhq.com galleries.

Steps to run the application

• Install all the dependencies from requirements.txt.

• Open command prompt in the projects directory and write the following commands

  • set FLASK_APP = main.py - This will tell Flask to point the application to main.py.
  • set FLASK_DEBUG = True - This will tell Flask to set the debug option to True. Used for debugging purposes if any issues arise.

• Type flask run command to start the application.

• Alternatively you could put the above commands in a Windows batch file(see below) and just run it to start the application.

      :: Setting the FLASK_APP to main.py
      set FLASK_APP=main.py
      
      :: Setting DEBUG as True/False. Always set to 'True' in Dev environment and 'False' in Prod environment.
      set FLASK_DEBUG=True
      
      ::Starting the flask server
      flask run
      
      PAUSE
  
  

Given a gallery URL, this site will

• Create a directory.
• Download the images from the URL and saves it to the directory.
• Zip the directory and provides the zip folder as download attachment.