Stop right-click saving: How to automatically scrape every image from a website

Description and use

Automated image scraping from websites using Gaffa API and Python, overcoming JavaScript, lazy‑loading, and IP blocking issues.

Problem

Manually saving images from the web is tedious and error‑prone, especially when sites use JavaScript, lazy‑loading, or rate‑limiting.

Outcome

The script automates image scraping at scale, handling JavaScript rendering, lazy‑loading, and IP blocking, and reduces manual effort from days to minutes.

Workflow

• 1. Use Gaffa’s /v1/site/map endpoint to retrieve every URL on the target site.
• 2. For each URL, send a browser request with actions to wait for images and capture the fully rendered DOM.
• 3. Parse the captured DOM to extract all <img> src and data-src attributes via regex.
• 4. Download each image using Gaffa’s download_file action, which handles browser fingerprinting, residential proxies, and caching.

Evidence

We used two powerful features of our API: the Site Mapping endpoint and the enhanced download-file browser request action.

Source

The Gaffa API makes sure that the website is rendered first, which is often one of the main issues when using traditional web scraping frameworks.

Source