Download images from Google Image search using Python

gistfile1.py

import json
import os
import time
import requests
from PIL import Image
from StringIO import StringIO
from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError

def go(query, path):
  """Download full size images from Google image search.

  Don't print or republish images without permission.
  I used this to train a learning algorithm.
  """
  BASE_URL = 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?'\
             'v=1.0&q=' + query + '&start=%d'

  BASE_PATH = os.path.join(path, query)

  if not os.path.exists(BASE_PATH):
    os.makedirs(BASE_PATH)

  start = 0 # Google's start query string parameter for pagination.
  while start < 60: # Google will only return a max of 56 results.
    r = requests.get(BASE_URL % start)
    for image_info in json.loads(r.text)['responseData']['results']:
      url = image_info['unescapedUrl']
      try:
        image_r = requests.get(url)
      except ConnectionError, e:
        print 'could not download %s' % url
        continue

      # Remove file-system path characters from name.
      title = image_info['titleNoFormatting'].replace('/', '').replace('\\', '')

      file = open(os.path.join(BASE_PATH, '%s.jpg') % title, 'w')
      try:
        Image.open(StringIO(image_r.content)).save(file, 'JPEG')
      except IOError, e:
        # Throw away some gifs...blegh.
        print 'could not save %s' % url
        continue
      finally:
        file.close()

    print start
    start += 4 # 4 images per page.

    # Be nice to Google and they'll be nice back :)
    time.sleep(1.5)

# Example use
go('landscape', 'myDirectory')

This code does not appear to work today. When testing the query, I got the following results:

json.loads={'responseDetails': 'This API is no longer available.', 'responseData': None, 'responseStatus': 403}

I'm trying to migrate to the new Google Photos API and am having problems with the full picture download using baseUrl. I can only get lowres images and not full sized.

Same here. I find this disappointing and sad. Must find something else that works to complete the same task.

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable