Scrapy image download how to use custom filename

This is just actualization of the answer for scrapy 0.24 (EDITED), where the image_key() is deprecated

class MyImagesPipeline(ImagesPipeline):

    #Name download version
    def file_path(self, request, response=None, info=None):
        #item=request.meta['item'] # Like this you can use all from item, not just url.
        image_guid = request.url.split('/')[-1]
        return 'full/%s' % (image_guid)

    #Name thumbnail version
    def thumb_path(self, request, thumb_id, response=None, info=None):
        image_guid = thumb_id + response.url.split('/')[-1]
        return 'thumbs/%s/%s.jpg' % (thumb_id, image_guid)

    def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
        #yield Request(item['images']) # Adding meta. I don't know, how to put it in one line :-)
        for image in item['images']:
            yield Request(image)

In scrapy 0.12 I solved something like this

class MyImagesPipeline(ImagesPipeline):

    #Name download version
    def image_key(self, url):
        image_guid = url.split('/')[-1]
        return 'full/%s.jpg' % (image_guid)

    #Name thumbnail version
    def thumb_key(self, url, thumb_id):
        image_guid = thumb_id + url.split('/')[-1]
        return 'thumbs/%s/%s.jpg' % (thumb_id, image_guid)

    def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
        yield Request(item['images'])

This was the way I solved the problem in Scrapy 0.10 . Check the method persist_image of FSImagesStoreChangeableDirectory. The filename of the downloaded image is key

class FSImagesStoreChangeableDirectory(FSImagesStore):

    def persist_image(self, key, image, buf, info,append_path):

        absolute_path = self._get_filesystem_path(append_path+'/'+key)
        self._mkdir(os.path.dirname(absolute_path), info)
        image.save(absolute_path)

class ProjectPipeline(ImagesPipeline):

    def __init__(self):
        super(ImagesPipeline, self).__init__()
        store_uri = settings.IMAGES_STORE
        if not store_uri:
            raise NotConfigured
        self.store = FSImagesStoreChangeableDirectory(store_uri)

I found my way in 2017,scrapy 1.1.3

def file_path(self, request, response=None, info=None):
    return request.meta.get('filename','')

def get_media_requests(self, item, info):
    img_url = item['img_url']
    meta = {'filename': item['name']}
    yield Request(url=img_url, meta=meta)

like the code above,you can add the name you want to a Request meta in get_media_requests(), and get it back in file_path() by request.meta.get('yourname','').

I did a nasty quick hack for that. In my case, I stored the title of image in my feeds. And, I had only 1 image_urls per item, so, I wrote the following script. It basically renames the image files in the /images/full/ directory with the corresponding title in the item feed that I had stored in as json.

import os
import json

img_dir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'images\\full')
item_dir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'data.json')

with open(item_dir, 'r') as item_json:
    items = json.load(item_json)

for item in items:
    if len(item['images']) > 0:
        cur_file = item['images'][0]['path'].split('/')[-1]
        cur_format = cur_file.split('.')[-1]
        new_title = item['title']+'.%s'%cur_format
        file_path = os.path.join(img_dir, cur_file)
        os.rename(file_path, os.path.join(img_dir, new_title))

It's nasty & not recommended. But, it is a naive alternative approach.