> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://serpapi.com/blog/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Scrape Brave Images with Python - URL: https://serpapi.com/blog/scrape-brave-images-with-python/ - Published: 2022-11-04T10:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2023-03-28T22:07:41.000Z - Description: This blog post is a step-by-step tutorial about scraping all images with pagination on the Brave Search using Python. - Author: Artur Chukhrai - Tags: Brave, Web Scraping, Python Currently, we don't have an API that supports extracting data from Brave Search. This blog post is to show you how you can do it yourself with the provided DIY solution below while we're working on releasing our proper API. The solution can be used for personal use as it doesn't include the [Legal US Shield](https://serpapi.com/#features) that we offer for our paid [production and above plans](https://serpapi.com/pricing) and has its limitations such as the need to bypass blocks, for example, CAPTCHA. You can check our public roadmap to track the progress for this API: ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ [\[New API\] Brave Search](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/322) ## What will be scraped ![wwbs-brave-images](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/81998012/197317672-392a9605-5e5f-4764-91e2-863f209100df.png) ## What is Brave Search The previous Brave blog post described [what is Brave search](https://serpapi.com/blog/scrape-brave-search-organic-results-with-python/). For the sake of non-duplicating content, this information is not mentioned in this blog post. ## Full Code If you don't need an explanation, have a look at the [full code example in the online IDE](https://replit.com/@chukhraiartur/blog-brave-search-images#main.py). ```python import requests, json def scrape_brave_images(): # https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#passing-parameters-in-urls params = { 'q': 'dune 2021', # query 'source': 'web', # source 'size': 'All', # size (Small, Medium, Large, Wallpaper) '_type': 'All', # type (Photo, Clipart, AnimatedGifHttps, Transparent) 'layout': 'All', # layout (Square, Tall, Wide) 'color': 'All', # colors (Monochrome, ColorOnly, Red etc) 'license': 'All', # license (Public, Share, Modify etc) 'offset': 0 } # https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#custom-headers headers = { 'content-type': 'application/json', 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' } data = [] old_page_result = [] while True: html = requests.get('https://search.brave.com/api/images', headers=headers, params=params).json() new_page_result = html['results'] if new_page_result == old_page_result: break for result in new_page_result: data.append({ 'title': result.get('title'), 'link': result.get('url'), 'source': result.get('source'), 'width': result.get('properties').get('width'), 'height': result.get('properties').get('height'), 'image': result.get('properties').get('url') }) params['offset'] += 151 old_page_result = new_page_result return data if __name__ == "__main__": brave_images = scrape_brave_images() print(json.dumps(brave_images, indent=2)) ``` ## Preparation **Install libraries**: ```lang-none pip install requests ``` **Reduce the chance of being blocked** Make sure you're using [request headers](https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#custom-headers) [user-agent](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/User%5Fagent) to act as a "real" user visit. Because default `requests` `user-agent` is [python-requests](https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/589c4547338b592b1fb77c65663d8aa6fbb7e38b/requests/utils.py#L808-L814) and websites understand that it's most likely a script that sends a request. [Check what's your user-agent](https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent/). There's a [how to reduce the chance of being blocked while web scraping blog post](https://serpapi.com/blog/how-to-reduce-chance-of-being-blocked-while-web/) that can get you familiar with basic and more advanced approaches. ## Code Explanation Import libraries: ```python import requests, json ``` | Library | Purpose | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | | [requests](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/quickstart/) | to make a request to the website. | | [json](https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html) | to convert extracted data to a JSON object. | Create URL parameters and request headers: ```python # https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#passing-parameters-in-urls params = { 'q': 'dune 2021', # query 'source': 'web', # source 'size': 'All', # size (Small, Medium, Large, Wallpaper) '_type': 'All', # type (Photo, Clipart, AnimatedGifHttps, Transparent) 'layout': 'All', # layout (Square, Tall, Wide) 'color': 'All', # colors (Monochrome, ColorOnly, Red etc) 'license': 'All', # license (Public, Share, Modify etc) 'offset': 0 } # https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#custom-headers headers = { 'content-type': 'application/json', 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' } ``` | Code | Explanation | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [params ](https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#passing-parameters-in-urls) | a prettier way of passing URL parameters to a request. | | [content-type ](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Type) | to indicate the original media type of the resource (prior to any content encoding applied for sending). In responses, a Content-Type header provides the client with the actual content type of the returned content. | | [user-agent](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/User%5Fagent) | to act as a "real" user request from the browser by passing it to [request headers](https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#custom-headers). [Default requests user-agent is a python-reqeusts](https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/589c4547338b592b1fb77c65663d8aa6fbb7e38b/requests/utils.py#L808-L814) so websites might understand that it's a bot or a script and block the request to the website. [Check what's your user-agent](https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent). | Create the `data` list to hold all the data, and the `old_page_result` list that we'll need later: ```python data = [] old_page_result = [] ``` To scrape Brave images with pagination, you need to use the `offset` parameter of the URL, which defaults to `0` for the first page, `151` for the second, and so on. Since data is retrieved from all pages, it is necessary to implement a `while` loop: ```python while True: # pagination will be here ``` In each iteration of the loop, you need to make a request to the Brave API, pass the created request parameters and headers. Using the [json() method](https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/response-json-python-requests/), the response is converted into a JSON object for further work: ```python html = requests.get('https://search.brave.com/api/images', headers=headers, params=params).json() ``` The `new_page_result` list contains all the results on the current page. The `new_page_result` list is compared with the `old_page_result` list. If they are the same, then this means that we have reached the last page and there is no more new data. Therefore, you need to `break` the loop: ```python new_page_result = html['results'] if new_page_result == old_page_result: break ``` ๐Ÿ“ŒNote: In the first iteration of the loop, there is no data in the `old_page_result` list. Therefore, the check will fail. By looping through the `new_page_result` list in a `for` loop, you can get the data. For each result, data such as `title`, `link`, `source`, `width`, `height`, and `image` are retrieved: ```python for result in new_page_result: data.append({ 'title': result.get('title'), 'link': result.get('url'), 'source': result.get('source'), 'width': result.get('properties').get('width'), 'height': result.get('properties').get('height'), 'image': result.get('properties').get('url') }) ``` ๐Ÿ“ŒNote: The `image` key contains a full resolution image. After extracting the data, you need to increase the value of the `offset` parameter by `151`. This value also increases on the site when you click on the button responsible for showing more data, that is, we simulate this behavior: ```python params['offset'] += 151 ``` This is shown more clearly in the GIF below: ![brave-images-pagination](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/81998012/197318628-48882e51-d638-40c1-8ec4-85164442ff5d.gif) On each iteration, the data from the `new_page_result` list will be written to the `old_page_result` list until they are the same: ```python old_page_result = new_page_result ``` ## Output ```json [ { "title": "Dune (2021) | The Poster Database (TPDb)", "link": "https://theposterdb.com/posters/42710?page=2", "source": "theposterdb.com", "width": 1365, "height": 2048, "image": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/2sxSn0jjjQoIIZfZjC6j5GZkMVR.jpg" }, { "title": "Dune (2021) - Posters \u2014 The Movie Database (TMDB)", "link": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/438631-dune/images/posters", "source": "The Movie Database", "width": 2000, "height": 3000, "image": "https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/original/7S56MF6XA1jIzD9I2ejMjd6aNvN.jpg" }, { "title": "Dune (2021) - Posters \u2014 The Movie Database (TMDb)", "link": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/438631-dune/images/posters", "source": "The Movie Database", "width": 956, "height": 1333, "image": "https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/original/AqjrlcNRSKx84CeNJyNueg6V1SR.jpg" }, { "title": "Dune - Pel\u00edcula 2021 - SensaCine.com", "link": "http://www.sensacine.com/peliculas/pelicula-133392/", "source": "Sensacine", "width": 600, "height": 800, "image": "http://es.web.img2.acsta.net/pictures/20/04/15/09/53/3283826.jpg" }, { "title": "DUNE 2021 Movie Poster : dune", "link": "https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/kh9som/dune_2021_movie_poster/", "source": "reddit.com", "width": 1890, "height": 2800, "image": "https://preview.redd.it/3fl2s0q1ug661.jpg?auto=webp&s=ed5e4418f962103b0d47b5b466036d7b40aa761b" }, ... other images ] ``` ## Links - [Code in the online IDE](https://replit.com/@chukhraiartur/blog-brave-search-images#main.py) - [Reduce the chance of being blocked while web scraping](https://dev.to/dimitryzub/how-to-reduce-chance-being-blocked-while-web-scraping-search-engines-1o46) Join us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/serp%5Fapi) | [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUgIHlYBOD3yA3yDIRhg%5Fmg) Add a [Feature Request](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues)๐Ÿ’ซ or a [Bug](https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues)๐Ÿž