Downloading a Picture via Urllib and Python

python save image from url

A sample code that works for me on Windows:

import requests

with open('pic1.jpg', 'wb') as handle:
    response = requests.get(pic_url, stream=True)

    if not response.ok:
        print(response)

    for block in response.iter_content(1024):
        if not block:
            break

        handle.write(block)

How to download an image to a specific local directory using either urllib or shutil?

I found a simpler solution. So I changed my code to use only Urllib. What I was missing was the forward slash at the end of the destination path which is C:users\user\Pictures\test/.

To add another piece of information as you can see in the code block urlretrieve uses the second argument as a location that you want to save.

import urllib.request

def download_jpg(url, file_path, file_name):
    full_path = file_path + file_name + ".jpg"
    urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, full_path)

url = input("Enter img URL to download: ")
file_name = input("Enter file name to save as: ")

download_jpg(url, r"C:\Users\User\Pictures\test/", file_name )

How do I download images with an https URL in Python 3?

May help you...

I made this script, but never finished (the final intention was make it running everyday automatically)

But to not be the kind of person who postpone the answers, here's the piece of code you're interest:

    def downloadimg(self):
        import datetime
        imgurl = self.getdailyimg();
        imgfilename = datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%Y%m%d') + '_' + imgurl.split('/')[-1]
        with open(IMGFOLDER + imgfilename, 'wb') as f:
            f.write(self.readimg(imgurl))

Hope it helps you out!

Edited

PS: using python3

Full script

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
IMGFOLDER = os.getcwd() + '/images/'

class BingImage(object):
    """docstring for BingImage"""
    BINGURL = 'http://www.bing.com/'
    JSONURL = 'HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1&mkt=pt-BR'
    LASTIMG = None

    def __init__(self):
        super(BingImage, self).__init__()
        try:
            self.downloadimg()
        except:
            pass

    def getdailyimg(self):
        import json
        import urllib.request
        with urllib.request.urlopen(self.BINGURL + self.JSONURL) as response:
            rawjson = response.read().decode('utf-8')
            parsedjson = json.loads(rawjson)
            return self.BINGURL + parsedjson['images'][0]['url'][1:]

    def downloadimg(self):
        import datetime
        imgurl = self.getdailyimg();
        imgfilename = datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%Y%m%d') + '_' + imgurl.split('/')[-1]
        with open(IMGFOLDER + imgfilename, 'wb') as f:
            f.write(self.readimg(imgurl))
        self.LASTIMG = IMGFOLDER + imgfilename

    def checkfolder(self):
        d = os.path.dirname(IMGFOLDER)
        if not os.path.exists(d):
            os.makedirs(d)

    def readimg(self, url):
        import urllib.request
        with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
            return response.read()

def DefineBackground(src):
    import platform
    if platform.system() == 'Linux':
        MAINCMD = "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri"
        os.system(MAINCMD + ' file://' + src)

def GetRandomImg():
    """Return a random image already downloaded from the images folder"""
    import random
    f = []
    for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(IMGFOLDER):
        f.extend(filenames)
        break
    return IMGFOLDER + random.choice(f)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # get a new today's image from Bing
    img = BingImage()
    # check whether a new image was get or not
    if(img.LASTIMG):
        DefineBackground(img.LASTIMG)
    else:
        DefineBackground(GetRandomImg())
    print('Background defined')

I downloaded image with urllib.request.urlretrieve and the image is downloaded but it does not open

It is not working because you are not pointing to an image. You are trying to download an html page as a png. Change the url to a png and it will work.

import urllib.request

def download_image(url):

    full_name = "img3.png"
    urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, full_name)

download_image("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Google.png/800px-Google.png")

How to save an image locally using Python whose URL address I already know?

Python 2

Here is a more straightforward way if all you want to do is save it as a file:

import urllib

urllib.urlretrieve("http://www.digimouth.com/news/media/2011/09/google-logo.jpg", "local-filename.jpg")

The second argument is the local path where the file should be saved.

Python 3

As SergO suggested the code below should work with Python 3.

import urllib.request

urllib.request.urlretrieve("http://www.digimouth.com/news/media/2011/09/google-logo.jpg", "local-filename.jpg")

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