Automatically Downloading Pictures via Google Picture Search with PowerShell
Invoke-WebRequest can take the image URLs and automatically download the pictures. Here is how: $SearchItem=’PowerShell’$TargetFolder=’c:\webpictures’if ( (Test-Path-Path$TargetFolder) -eq$false) { md$TargetFolder } explorer.exe$TargetFolder$url=”https://www.google.com/search?q=$SearchItem&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&tbm=isch&tbs=isz:lt%2Cislt:2mp”$browserAgent=’Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.146 Safari/537.36’$page=Invoke-WebRequest-Uri$url-UserAgent$browserAgent$page.Links|Where-Object { $_.href-like’*imgres*’ } |ForEach-Object { ($_.href-split’imgurl=’)[-1].Split(‘&’)[0]} |ForEach-Object { $file=Split-Path-Path$_-Leaf$path=Join-Path-Path$TargetFolder-ChildPath$fileInvoke-WebRequest-Uri$_-OutFile$path } This will download all high-res images matching the keyword “PowerShell” to your folder…