For the problem of high repetition rate of image resources collected by general theme crawler, a theme image crawler system is designed to reduce image similarity. The main contents of the design include the main function modules of the crawler, the workflow of the system and the implementation method of the key modules. The difference hash algorithm is used to solve the problem of image similarity effectively. Combined with Web text cosine correlation algorithm and link PageRank algorithm, the paper comprehensively evaluates the relevance between Web resources and topics. The experimental results show that the subject image crawler can effectively reduce the similarity of the collected images and improve the efficiency of crawler image resources acquisition.