Discover and Download Unsplash Images with Streamlit and Python

Tarun Gupta
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readApr 4, 2024

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Photo by Ben Kolde on Unsplash

Social media platforms have become integral to our lives in today's digital era. From Facebook to Instagram, Twitter to Pinterest, these platforms offer us a plethora of content to explore and engage with.

One of the critical elements that make social media engaging is the visual content it offers. Stunning images can captivate users, evoke emotions, and enhance their experience on various platforms.

In this story, we will explore how to harness the power of the Unsplash API and display high-quality images using streamlit, a popular Python framework for building interactive web applications.

Setting Up the Environment

Before diving into the code, ensure everything is set up properly. To use Streamlit and make HTTP requests, we need to install a couple of dependencies. First, let's install streamlit by running the following command in your terminal:

pip install streamlit

We also need the requests library to make HTTP requests and retrieve data from the Unsplash API. If you don't have it installed, run the following command:

pip install requests

Furthermore, we'll use the random module to select a random page number from the search results…

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Tarun Gupta
ILLUMINATION

A simple fellow writing stories, sharing experiences, sharing his perspective, trying to do his share of humanity.