Update --chromedriver default, comments and README

README.md

@@ -6,14 +6,16 @@ This directory contains Bing image-scraping software forked from https://github.
 
 # Requirements
 
-Python 3.7 or later with all of the `pip install -U -r requirements.txt` packages including:
-- `selenium`
+Python 3.8 or later with all [requirements.txt](https://github.com/ultralytics/google-images-download/blob/master/requirements.txt) dependencies installed, including `selenium`. To install run:
+```bash
+$ pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
 
 # Install
 ```bash
-git clone https://github.com/ultralytics/google-images-download
-cd google-images-download
-pip install -U -r requirements.txt
+$ git clone https://github.com/ultralytics/google-images-download
+$ cd google-images-download
+$ pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
 # Use
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ $ python3 bing_scraper.py --url 'https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=flowers' -
 
 or `--search` terms. Images are saved to `./images`. Note that error-producing images may be skipped.
 ```bash
-$ python3 bing_scraper.py --search 'honeybees on flowers' --limit 10 --download --chromedriver /Users/glennjocher/Downloads/chromedriver
+$ python bing_scraper.py --search 'honeybees on flowers' --limit 10 --download --chromedriver ./chromedriver
 
 Searching for https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=honeybees%20on%20flowers
 Downloading HTML... 3499588 elements: 30it [00:24,  1.21it/s]

bing_scraper.py

@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-###### Searching and Downloading Google Images to the local disk ######
-# Originally from https://github.com/hardikvasa/google-images-download
-# Updated by Evan Sellers <[email protected]> Feb 2020 for bing search with url only
-# Updated by [email protected] Feb 2020, requires python 3
+# Bing Images and Google Images web scraper
+# Requires chromedriver. Download from https://chromedriver.chromium.org/
+
+# Example usage:
+#   python bing_scraper.py --url 'https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=flowers' --limit 10
+#   python bing_scraper.py --search 'honeybees on flowers' --limit 10
 
-# python3 bing_scraper.py --url 'https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=flowers' --limit 10 --chromedriver /Users/glennjocher/Downloads/chromedriver
-# python3 bing_scraper.py --search 'honeybees on flowers' --limit 10 --chromedriver /Users/glennjocher/Downloads/chromedriver
-# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49162667/unknown-error-call-function-result-missing-value-for-selenium-send-keys-even
 
 import argparse
 import codecs
@@ -129,9 +128,7 @@ def user_input():
                             help="A word that you would want to prefix in front of each image name", type=str,
                             required=False)
         parser.add_argument('-px', '--proxy', help='specify a proxy address and port', type=str, required=False)
-        parser.add_argument('-cd', '--chromedriver',
-                            help='specify the path to chromedriver executable in your local machine', type=str,
-                            required=False)
+        parser.add_argument('-cd', '--chromedriver', help='chromedriver path', type=str, default='./chromedriver')
         parser.add_argument('-ri', '--related_images', default=False,
                             help="Downloads images that are similar to the keyword provided", action="store_true")
         parser.add_argument('-sa', '--safe_search', default=False,

requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # pip install -r requirements.txt
+# Requires chromedriver. Download from https://chromedriver.chromium.org/
 
 numpy
 tqdm