How to Scrape Google Images with Python (2026 Guide)

				
					import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
import json

async def scrape_google_images(query: str, num_scrolls: int = 3):
    results = []

    async with async_playwright() as p:
        browser = await p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
        page = await browser.new_page()

        # Set a real user agent to avoid immediate blocking
        await page.set_extra_http_headers({
            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
        })

        # Navigate to Google Images
        url = f"https://www.google.com/search?q={query}&tbm=isch"
        await page.goto(url)

        # Scroll to load more images
        for _ in range(num_scrolls):
            await page.keyboard.press("End")
            await page.wait_for_timeout(2000)

        # Extract image data
        images = await page.query_selector_all("div.eA0Zlc")

        for image in images:
            try:
                title = await image.get_attribute("aria-label")
                img_tag = await image.query_selector("img")
                thumbnail = await img_tag.get_attribute("src") if img_tag else None

                # Get the full resolution URL by clicking the image
                await image.click()
                await page.wait_for_timeout(1000)

                full_img = await page.query_selector("img.sFlh5c")
                full_url = await full_img.get_attribute("src") if full_img else None

                if full_url and not full_url.startswith("data:"):
                    results.append({
                        "title": title,
                        "thumbnail": thumbnail,
                        "full_image_url": full_url
                    })
            except Exception as e:
                continue

        await browser.close()
    
    return results

async def main():
    results = await scrape_google_images("water coolers", num_scrolls=3)
    for r in results:
        print(json.dumps(r, indent=2))

asyncio.run(main())