Python Script for Scraping and Converting Anime Images from Huashi6

The tutorial demonstrates a Python program that crawls the popular anime site Huashi6, retrieves high‑definition images, and converts the original webp files to the widely supported png format.

Program Overview – The script imports time , requests , BeautifulSoup from bs4 , os , re , urljoin from urllib.request , and Image from PIL . It creates two directories, girlfriends_webp and girlfriends_png , for storing the raw and converted images.

URL Pattern – A page‑number placeholder URL "https://www.huashi6.com/tags/161?p={}" is used to iterate through multiple tag pages (e.g., pages 1‑20). The domain for image resources is https://img2.huashi6.com .

Image URL Extraction – For each page, the script fetches the HTML with custom headers, sets response.encoding = 'unicode-escape' to expose the embedded JSON, and parses the second <script> element. A regular expression r'"path":"(.*?)"' extracts the relative image paths.

Downloading and Saving – Each relative path is joined with the domain using urljoin . The filename is derived from the URL, saved as .webp in the webp folder, and then converted to .png in the png folder. The download_image function handles HTTP requests, writes the binary content, and calls change_webp2png to perform the conversion with Pillow.

Conversion Logic – change_webp2png opens the downloaded .webp file via Image.open and saves it as .png . If conversion fails, the script retries the download.

Full Code – The article provides the complete source code, including the helper functions analysis , download_image , and change_webp2png , as well as the main loop that iterates over page numbers, extracts URLs, and processes each image.

The guide also includes screenshots of the target website, sample output images, and a brief promotional note for a free Python course, but the core content remains a practical example of web scraping and image format conversion.