What’s the best image scraper for bulk downloads? or How reliable are free image scrapers for web pro

Honestly, "fast and ethical image scraper" is like finding a unicorn.

But Octoparse has a free tier that’s surprisingly good. It respects robots.txt and is faster than most. Downside? The UI is a bit clunky.

If you’re tech-savvy, BeautifulSoup + requests lib (Python) is lightweight and you can tweak speed vs. politeness.