Scrape src attribute from google with beautiful soup only

Question

I'm trying to scrape google images. While beautiful soup extracts 'src' it outputs links

data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///////yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw== 

which is not the actual image. The script tag looks heavily encoded and doesn't contain the actual URI. Can anybody suggest me a solution?

Actually this is minified data URI which when decoded yields a 1x1 image. My question is how google minifies complete data URI and how can we access the full URI so that we can get the actual image?

Answer 1

That's the image in Base64 encoding. You can save it to a image file like:

src = "BASE64 DATA"
img = open("MyImage.gif","wb+")
img.write(src.decode('base64'))
img.close()