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

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I know the URL of an image on Internet   e g  http   www digimouth com news media 2011 09 google-logo jpg  which contains the logo of Google   Now  how can I download this image using Python without actually opening the URL in a browser and saving the file manually

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This is very short answer   import urllib urllib urlretrieve  http   photogallery sandesh com Picture aspx AlubumId 422040    Abc jpg

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A solution which works with Python 2 and Python 3   try      from urllib request import urlretrieve    Python 3 except ImportError      from urllib import urlretrieve    Python 2  url    http   www digimouth com news media 2011 09 google-logo jpg  urlretrieve url   local-filename jpg     or  if the additional requirement of requests is acceptable and if it is a http s  URL   def load requests source url  sink path               Load a file from an URL  e g  http        Parameters     ----------     source url   str         Where to load the file from      sink path   str         Where the loaded file is stored              import requests     r   requests get source url  stream True      if r status code    200          with open sink path   wb   as f              for chunk in r                  f write chunk

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Something fresh for Python 3 using Requests   Comments in the code  Ready to use function    import requests from os import path  def get image image url               Get image based on url       return  Image name if everything OK  False otherwise             image name   path split image url  1      try          image   requests get image url      except OSError     Little too wide  but work OK  no additional imports needed  Catch all conection problems         return False     if image status code    200     we could have retrieved error page         base dir   path join path dirname path realpath   file       images     Use your own path or    to use current working directory  Folder must exist          with open path join base dir  image name    wb   as f              f write image content          return image name  get image  https   apod nasddfda gov apod image 2003 S106 Mishra 1947 jpg

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If you don t already have the url for the image  you could scrape it with gazpacho  from gazpacho import Soup base url    quot http   books toscrape com quot   soup   Soup get base url  links    img attrs  quot src quot   for img in soup find  quot img quot     And then download the asset with urllib as mentioned  from pathlib import Path from urllib request import urlretrieve as download  directory    quot images quot  Path directory  mkdir exist ok True   link   links 0  name   link split  quot   quot   -1   download f quot  base url   link  quot   f quot  directory   name  quot

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Python 3  urllib request     Extensible library for opening URLs  from urllib error import HTTPError from urllib request import urlretrieve  try      urlretrieve image url  image local path  except FileNotFoundError as err      print err      something wrong with local path except HTTPError as err      print err     something wrong with url

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Python 2 Here is a more straightforward way if all you want to do is save it as a file  import urllib  urllib urlretrieve  quot http   www digimouth com news media 2011 09 google-logo jpg quot    quot local-filename jpg quot    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  quot http   www digimouth com news media 2011 09 google-logo jpg quot    quot local-filename jpg quot

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Using requests library  import requests import shutil os  headers          user-agent    Mozilla 5 0  Windows NT 10 0  Win64  x64  AppleWebKit 537 36  KHTML  like Gecko  Chrome 78 0 3904 108 Safari 537 36    currentDir   os getcwd   path   os path join currentDir  Images   saving images to Images folder  def ImageDl url       attempts   0     while attempts  lt  5  retry 5 times         try              filename   url split      -1              r   requests get url headers headers stream True timeout 5              if r status code    200                  with open os path join path filename   wb   as f                      r raw decode content   True                     shutil copyfileobj r raw f              print filename              break         except Exception as e              attempts  1             print e    ImageDl url

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Late answer  but for python gt  3 6 you can use dload  i e    import dload dload save  http   www digimouth com news media 2011 09 google-logo jpg     if you need the image as bytes  use   img bytes   dload bytes  http   www digimouth com news media 2011 09 google-logo jpg       install using pip3 install dload

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Use a simple python wget module to download the link  Usage below  import wget wget download  http   www digimouth com news media 2011 09 google-logo jpg

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Version for Python 3  I adjusted the code of  madprops for Python 3    getem py   python2 script to download all images in a given url   use  python getem py http   url where images are  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import urllib request import shutil import requests from urllib parse import urljoin import sys import time  def make soup url       req   urllib request Request url  headers   User-Agent     Magic Browser         html   urllib request urlopen req      return BeautifulSoup html   html parser    def get images url       soup   make soup url      images    img for img in soup findAll  img        print  str len images       images found        print  Downloading images to current working directory        image links    each get  src   for each in images      for each in image links          try              filename   each strip   split      -1  strip               src   urljoin url  each              print  Getting      filename              response   requests get src  stream True                delay to avoid corrupted previews             time sleep 1              with open filename   wb   as out file                  shutil copyfileobj response raw  out file          except              print    An error occured  Continuing        print  Done     if   name         main         get images  http   www wookmark com

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img data requests get  https   apod nasa gov apod image 1701 potw1636aN159 HST 2048 jpg    with open str  file name jpg    wb   as handler      handler write img data

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I wrote a script that does just this  and it is available on my github for your use    I utilized BeautifulSoup to allow me to parse any website for images  If you will be doing much web scraping  or intend to use my tool  I suggest you sudo pip install BeautifulSoup  Information on BeautifulSoup is available here   For convenience here is my code   from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib2 import urlopen import urllib    use this image scraper from the location that   you want to save scraped images to  def make soup url       html   urlopen url  read       return BeautifulSoup html   def get images url       soup   make soup url       this makes a list of bs4 element tags     images    img for img in soup findAll  img        print  str len images      images found        print  Downloading images to current working directory        compile our unicode list of image links     image links    each get  src   for each in images      for each in image links          filename each split      -1          urllib urlretrieve each  filename      return image links   a standard call looks like this  get images  http   www wookmark com

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I made a script expanding on Yup  s script  I fixed some things  It will now bypass 403 Forbidden problems  It wont crash when an image fails to be retrieved  It tries to avoid corrupted previews  It gets the right absolute urls  It gives out more information  It can be run with an argument from the command line      getem py   python2 script to download all images in a given url   use  python getem py http   url where images are  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import urllib2 import shutil import requests from urlparse import urljoin import sys import time  def make soup url       req   urllib2 Request url  headers   User-Agent     Magic Browser         html   urllib2 urlopen req      return BeautifulSoup html   html parser    def get images url       soup   make soup url      images    img for img in soup findAll  img        print  str len images       images found        print  Downloading images to current working directory       image links    each get  src   for each in images      for each in image links          try              filename   each strip   split      -1  strip               src   urljoin url  each              print  Getting      filename             response   requests get src  stream True                delay to avoid corrupted previews             time sleep 1              with open filename   wb   as out file                  shutil copyfileobj response raw  out file          except              print    An error occured  Continuing       print  Done    if   name         main         url   sys argv 1      get images url

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This can be done with requests  Load the page and dump the binary content to a file   import os import requests  url    https   apod nasa gov apod image 1701 potw1636aN159 HST 2048 jpg  page   requests get url   f ext   os path splitext url  -1  f name    img    format f ext  with open f name   wb   as f      f write page content

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import urllib resource   urllib urlopen  http   www digimouth com news media 2011 09 google-logo jpg   output   open  file01 jpg   wb   output write resource read    output close     file01 jpg will contain your image

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

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