Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be downloading bulk images from pixabay website using their api in python using tkinter. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to install the following library using the pip command as shown below

pip install tkinter

After this make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

import os
import requests
import socket
import random
from tkinter import *
from tkinter.messagebox import *


try:
    socket.create_connection(("www.google.com",80))
    #showinfo("Connected","u r connected")


    def saveImage(image,dir):
        with open(dir+ '/' + str(image['id'])+".jpg", "wb") as f:
            r1 = requests.get(image["largeImageURL"])
            f.write(r1.content)     

    def storeImages(imagelist):
        mode = 0o666
        dir = "" + str(getwords.get())
        while os.path.exists(dir):
#please use your own default directory name like data:/ or e:/
            dir = "D:/" + str(getwords.get()) + str(random.randrange(0,1000))
        else:
            os.mkdir(dir)
        #print(imagelist)
        for i in imagelist:
            val = i['largeImageURL'].rfind('.')
            extension = i['largeImageURL'][val+1:]
            if extension.lower() == 'jpg' or extension.lower() == 'png':
                saveImage(i,dir)
            else:
                pass
        return dir
            
    def getImages():
        a1 = "https://pixabay.com/api/?key=16344627-110e29474f27c28a4a9923a6a&q="
        words = getwords.get()
        a2 = '+'.join(words.split(' '))
        #print(a2)
        a3 = "&safesearch=true&order=popular"
        res = requests.get(a1+a2+a3)
        #print(res)
        data = res.json()
        #print(data)
        val = storeImages(data['hits'])
        showinfo("Success",val + " directory created")
        getwords.delete(0, END)

except Exception as e:
    showerror("issue", e)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    root = Tk()
    root.title("Scraping images from pixabay")
    root.geometry("600x450+400+200")
    root.configure(background='#FF9196')
    root.resizable(False, False)



    lblwords = Label(root, text = "Enter the words for images to be searched", font = ('Arial', 18, 'bold'), bg = '#FF9196')
    lblinfo = Label(root, text = "(please enter keywords separated by space)", font = ('Arial', 18, 'bold'), bg = '#FF9196')
    getwords = Entry(root, width = 35,bd = 5, font = ('Arial', 18, 'bold'))
    btn = Button(root, text = "Search", font = ('Arial', 18, 'bold'), command = getImages)



    lblwords.pack(pady = 20)
    lblinfo.pack()
    getwords.pack(pady = 20)
    btn.pack(pady = 20)
    getwords.focus()



    root.mainloop()

Now if you execute the above script by typing the below command as shown below

python app.py

Now it will ask for you to search images by keyword you can also provide multiple keywords just separate it by comma and then it will automatically create the directory inside your root directory and download bulk images based on that keyword as shown below

As you can see we searched for the keyword india and it has downloaded all the images from pixabay website and stored it inside the folder called india