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Unlike most examples this handles some real data &#8211; e.g. 404&#8217;ed images and different URL structures.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"Python\">\nfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup\nimport Image\nimport urllib2\nimport os, re\n \ndomain = \"www.example.com\"\nindir = \"<file directory>\"\nfre = re.compile(\".*html$\")\n\nfor root, dirs, filenames in os.walk(indir):\n    for f in filenames:\n        if fre.match(f):\n            htmlfile = os.path.join(root, f)\n            print \"Parsing \"  + htmlfile\n \n            soup = BeautifulSoup(open(htmlfile), \"html5lib\")\n \n            images = soup.find_all('img')\n            def f(x) : \n                if (x['src'] is None):\n                    return False\n\n                imgSrc = x['src']\n\n                if (\"http:\/\/\" in imgSrc):\n                    imgSrc = imgSrc[7:]\n\n                if domain not in imgSrc:\n                    imgSrc = os.path.join(root, imgSrc)\n\n                imgFile = imgSrc\n\n                try: \n                    img = Image.open(imgFile)\n                    width, height = img.size\n                    return width > 150 and height > 150\n                except IOError:\n                    return False\n\n            art = filter(f, images)\n            print(art)\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This example shows how to use the Beautiful Soup library to find all images referenced in a bunch of html files, then filter to a particular size range &#8211; this works well to take out header images, logos, tracking pictures, etc. This assumes a system where you mirrored a website&#8217;s directory structure with wget. 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