Website Image Scraper

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Extract every image URL from a website. Crawls the start page (and optionally internal links up to a configurable depth), then parses <img> tags, <picture>/<source>, srcset candidates, <link rel="icon">, and CSS background-image declarations. HTTP-only — no browser, no proxy, no API key.

What it does

• Pull every image URL referenced on a page — <img src>, lazy-loaded data-src, srcset candidates, picture sources, favicons, inline style="background-image: url(...)".
• Crawl deeper — follow internal links up to maxCrawlDepth (same host only) to grab images from linked pages too.
• Filter by format — restrict to specific extensions (e.g. only SVG, only WebP/AVIF).
• Bounded — maxImagesPerPage and maxTotalImages keep runs cost-predictable on large galleries.

Input

Example input

{
"startUrl":"https://apify.com",
"maxCrawlDepth":1,
"maxImagesPerPage":200,
"maxTotalImages":500,
"imageExtensions":["jpg","png","webp","svg"],
"includeBackgroundImages":true
}

Output

One record per unique image URL. Empty fields are omitted (no nulls).

{
"url":"https://apify.com/static/hero.jpg",
"sourcePage":"https://apify.com/",
"pageTitle":"Apify · The full-stack web-scraping & automation platform",
"alt":"Apify hero image",
"hasAltText":true,
"title":"Apify",
"width":1200,
"height":600,
"extension":"jpg",
"discoveredVia":"img-tag",
"mimeTypeHint":"image/jpeg",
"crawlDepth":0,
"scrapedAt":"2024-12-16T14:23:11+00:00"
}

Output fields

• url — absolute URL of the image (data: URIs and javascript: pseudo-URLs are filtered out).
• sourcePage — the page where the image was discovered.
• pageTitle — <title> of the page where the image was found (handy for grouping the dataset by page name).
• alt — alt attribute of the <img> tag (when present).
• hasAltText — derived boolean: true when alt is present and non-empty. Lets you filter accessibility issues without testing for field presence.
• title — title attribute (when present).
• width / height — explicit pixel dimensions from the tag (only emitted when numeric).
• extension — lowercase file extension parsed from the URL path (e.g. "jpg", "svg", "webp"). Useful for format-bucket aggregations.
• discoveredVia — one of img-tag, srcset, picture-source, link-icon, css-background.
• mimeTypeHint — derived from the file extension (e.g. image/png, image/svg+xml).
• crawlDepth — depth at which the page was crawled (0 = startUrl).
• scrapedAt — ISO-8601 timestamp.

Use cases

• Content audits — see every image a website serves up, broken down by source (img tag vs CSS background).
• Asset inventory — pull all logos, hero images, and icons from a competitor or brand site.
• Format migration — find every JPEG/PNG to convert to WebP/AVIF, or every PNG to convert to SVG.
• SEO / accessibility — list images with hasAltText: false to flag accessibility issues at a glance.

FAQ

Does it download the image binaries? No. The actor only collects URLs and metadata. Combine with a separate downloader (or pipe URLs into Apify's standard "URL list" actor) if you need the bytes.

Does it work on JavaScript-rendered pages? Mostly no. This scraper is HTTP-only — it sees the server-rendered HTML, not what runs after the page boots. If a site lazy-loads images via React/Vue, you may only see fallback / placeholder images. For SPA-rendered content, use a Playwright-based actor instead.

Can I limit it to a single page? Set maxCrawlDepth: 0. Only the start URL is fetched.

Does it follow external links? No. Internal-link crawling only follows links to the same host as startUrl to keep cost and scope bounded.

What if the site has no images at all? You get a single sentinel record {"type": "website_image_scraper_error", "reason": "no_images_found"} so the dataset is non-empty. The run still completes successfully.

How does it deduplicate? By absolute URL. The same image referenced from multiple pages produces one record (the first-seen page is recorded as sourcePage).