Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

Downloading profile pictures using the Google+ API

Now that we have established how to use the Google+ API, we can design a script to pull down pictures. The aim here is to put faces to names taken from web pages. We will send a request to the API through a URL, handle the response through JSON, and create picture files in the working directory of the script.

How to do it

Here's a simple script to download profile pictures using the Google+ API:

import urllib2 import json GOOGLE_API_KEY = "{Insert your Google API key}" target = "packtpub.com" api_response = urllib2.urlopen("https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people? query="+target+"&key="+GOOGLE_API_KEY).read() json_response = json.loads(api_response) for result in json_response['items']: name = ...