I want to programatically find a list of URLs for similar images given an image URL. I can't find any free image search APIs so I'm trying to do this by scraping Google's Search by Image.
If I have an image URL, say http://i.imgur.com/oLmwq.png, then navigating to https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?&image_url=http://i.imgur.com/oLmwq.png gives related images and info.
How do I get jsdom.env
to produce the HTML your browser gets from the above URL?
Here's what I've tried (CoffeeScript):
jsdom = require 'jsdom'
url = 'https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?&image_url=http://i.imgur.com/oLmwq.png'
jsdom.env
html: url
scripts: [ "http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js" ]
features:
FetchExternalResources: ['script']
ProcessExternalResources: ['script']
done: (errors, window) ->
console.log window.$('body').html()
You can see the HTML doesn't match what we want. Is this an issue with Jsdom's HTTP headers?
I find request + cheerio to be easier than jsdom for tasks like this. I see that you've found an answer already, but thought I'd mention it as an alternative solution.
Example:
var request = require('request'),
cheerio = require('cheerio');
var google = 'https://www.google.com/searchbyimage';
var image = 'http://i.imgur.com/oLmwq.png';
var options = {
url: google,
qs: { image_url: image },
headers: { 'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11' }
};
request(options, function (err, res, body) {
var $ = cheerio.load(body);
…
});
The issue is Jsdom's User-Agent HTTP header. Once that is set everything (almost) works:
jsdom = require 'jsdom'
url = 'https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?&image_url=http://i.imgur.com/oLmwq.png'
jsdom.env
html: url
headers:
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11'
scripts: [ "http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js" ]
features:
FetchExternalResources: ['script']
ProcessExternalResources: ['script']
done: (errors, window) ->
$ = window.$
$('#iur img').parent().each (index, elem) ->
href = $(elem).attr 'href'
url = href.split('?')[1].split('&')[0].split('=')[1]
console.log url
Which gives us a nice list of visually similar images. The only problem now is Jsdom throws an error after returning the result:
timers.js:103
if (!process.listeners('uncaughtException').length) throw e;
^
TypeError: Cannot call method 'call' of undefined
at new <anonymous> (/project-root/node_modules/jsdom/lib/jsdom/browser/index.js:54:13)
at _.Zl (https://www.google.com/xjs/_/js/s/c,sb,cr,cdos,jsa,ssb,sf,tbpr,tbui,rsn,qi,ob,mb,lc,hv,cfm,klc,kat,aut,esp,bihu,amcl,kp,lu,m,rtis,shb,sfa,hsm,pcc,csi/rt=j/ver=3w99aWPP0po.en_US./d=1/sv=1/rs=AItRSTPrAylXrfkOPyRRY-YioThBMqxW2A:1238:93)
at _.jm (https://www.google.com/xjs/_/js/s/c,sb,cr,cdos,jsa,ssb,sf,tbpr,tbui,rsn,qi,ob,mb,lc,hv,cfm,klc,kat,aut,esp,bihu,amcl,kp,lu,m,rtis,shb,sfa,hsm,pcc,csi/rt=j/ver=3w99aWPP0po.en_US./d=1/sv=1/rs=AItRSTPrAylXrfkOPyRRY-YioThBMqxW2A:1239:399)
at _.km (https://www.google.com/xjs/_/js/s/c,sb,cr,cdos,jsa,ssb,sf,tbpr,tbui,rsn,qi,ob,mb,lc,hv,cfm,klc,kat,aut,esp,bihu,amcl,kp,lu,m,rtis,shb,sfa,hsm,pcc,csi/rt=j/ver=3w99aWPP0po.en_US./d=1/sv=1/rs=AItRSTPrAylXrfkOPyRRY-YioThBMqxW2A:1241:146)
at Object._onTimeout (https://www.google.com/xjs/_/js/s/c,sb,cr,cdos,jsa,ssb,sf,tbpr,tbui,rsn,qi,ob,mb,lc,hv,cfm,klc,kat,aut,esp,bihu,amcl,kp,lu,m,rtis,shb,sfa,hsm,pcc,csi/rt=j/ver=3w99aWPP0po.en_US./d=1/sv=1/rs=AItRSTPrAylXrfkOPyRRY-YioThBMqxW2A:1248:727)
at Timer.list.ontimeout (timers.js:101:19)