2020 Part 1, Chapter 2, Downloading Images from Bing

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Download images using DuckDuckGo [Alternative to bing API]

The bing image search need you to signup for azure, and its a hassle. The problem with DuckDuckGo is that they do not have an official API, so the functions of fastai relies on the particular structure of their web interface, which may change. Here is what I did to solve that. #code starts here !pip install -Uqq fastbook import fastbook fastbook.setup_book() import os from fastbook import * bear_types = 'teddy','grizzly','black' path = Path('bears') if not path.exists(): path.mkdir(exis…