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Yahoo Images Scraper

images.search.yahoo.com

Yahoo Images serves results from Bing's image index on its own pages, with a regional site for many countries. Its grid loads more tiles as you scroll and keeps each result's original image and source page in attributes on the tile, so scraping it yourself means rendering the page and reading every tile. A dedicated plugin endpoint takes a keyword and returns every result already parsed - the real full-resolution image URL (not a thumbnail), the source domain and page, a title and site name, a thumbnail and the original pixel dimensions - with no grid to render yourself and no Yahoo account. proxy_country picks Yahoo's regional site (de.images.search.yahoo.com for DE) and the exit the page is rendered through in a real browser, and pages collects up to 10 pages of about 60 images each in one call. The response mirrors our Google Images and Bing Images plugins, so one pipeline handles them all.

What you can extract

• The full-resolution original image URL on the publisher's site, for every result
• The source domain and the source page URL that displays the image
• The result title, plus the site Yahoo shows for it
• A fast Bing-hosted thumbnail URL, the one Yahoo shows in its grid
• Original image width and height in pixels
• A Yahoo Images viewer link for every result
• About 60 results per page, up to 10 pages per call, from Yahoo's regional site for the country you pick

Dedicated endpoints

How to scrape it

curl -X POST \
  -H "X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key: $SU_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/images/yahoo-search?q=eiffel%20tower&pages=1"

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.scrapeunblocker.com/images/yahoo-search",
    headers={"X-ScrapeUnblocker-Key": SU_API_KEY},
    params={"q": "eiffel tower", "pages": "1"},
)
print(resp.text)

import { ScrapeUnblockerClient } from 'scrapeunblocker';

const su = new ScrapeUnblockerClient({ apiKey: process.env.SU_API_KEY });

const results = await su.yahooImages('eiffel tower', {
  pages: 1,
});
console.log(results);

Requests are POST and take their parameters in the query string. Browser rendering always happens - there is no flag to enable.

Example response

{
  "engine": "yahoo",
  "query": "eiffel tower",
  "gl": "us",
  "proxyCountry": "US",
  "resultsCollected": 60,
  "pagesFetched": 1,
  "hasMore": true,
  "results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "imageUrl": "https://cdn.britannica.com/54/75854-050-E27E66C0/Eiffel-Tower-Paris.jpg",
      "sourceDomain": "britannica.com",
      "sourcePageUrl": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/Eiffel-Tower-Paris-France",
      "title": "Eiffel Tower | History, Height, & Facts | Britannica",
      "sourceName": "www.britannica.com",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.Z97bkX40h0DN2g8WwHpqJwHaLO?r=0&pid=Api&h=220&P=0",
      "width": 1056,
      "height": 1600,
      "fileSize": null,
      "yahooImagesUrl": "https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A2RRWreO_LlqFQMABYGJzbkF;_ylu=Y29sbwN1cy1lYXN0LTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny?p=eiffel+tower&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.britannica.com..."
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "imageUrl": "https://cdn.britannica.com/52/245552-050-3D7334F9/Eiffel-Tower-Paris.jpg",
      "sourceDomain": "morilly.com",
      "sourcePageUrl": "https://morilly.com/blog/paris-attractions-eiffel-tower",
      "title": "Paris attractions eiffel tower 60 photos - Morilly.com",
      "sourceName": "morilly.com",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.54RmpGCUWV9JgeBRQFxVjAHaHo?r=0&pid=Api&h=220&P=0",
      "width": 1551,
      "height": 1600,
      "fileSize": null,
      "yahooImagesUrl": "https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A2RRWreO_LlqFQMAB4GJzbkF;_ylu=Y29sbwN1cy1lYXN0LTEEcG9zAzIEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny?p=eiffel+tower&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.britannica.com..."
    }
  ]
}

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