Extract every image URL from a list of websites

You have a list of sites and need every image on them: product pages, portfolio sites, a competitor's catalogue. Doing it by hand is slow, and a quick script misses lazy-loaded srcset and CSS background images. Here is a one-call way, with the cost per 1,000 images worked out.

What the typical job looks like

Runs on this actor so far are mostly bulk jobs: a list of page URLs goes in, about a thousand image rows come out in a single run. That is the sizing used below.

1. Call it

The Website Image Extractor needs no browser and no proxy setup. This returns one dataset row per image:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/pennydata~website-image-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"images","startUrls":[{"url":"https://books.toscrape.com/"},{"url":"https://quotes.toscrape.com/"}],"maxImages":1000,"downloadMode":false}'

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("pennydata/website-image-extractor").call(run_input={
    "mode": "images",
    "startUrls": [{"url": "https://books.toscrape.com/"}],
    "maxImages": 1000,
    "downloadMode": False,
})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["imageUrl"], row["pageUrl"])

Each row has pageUrl, imageUrl, alt, width, height, contentType, bytes and source (img, img-srcset, picture-source, og:image, twitter:image, css-background). Width and height are what the page declares; the actor does not decode images. Pages that need JavaScript to render are not executed.

2. What it costs

So a 1,000-image URL list is about $2.00, and downloading 1,000 files into a ZIP is about $1.00. Setting maxImages caps a run's spend. Pages that fail or are blocked by robots.txt are not charged. Check the current prices on the actor page before you budget, since they can change.

3. Variants

• Need the files, not just URLs? Set downloadMode to true and you get a ZIP.
• Want only logos, favicons and brand colours per site? Use "mode":"brand".

Open Website Image Extractor on the Apify Store

I built this actor and earn from its runs. Written with AI assistance (Claude).