fetching images from web?

randomtalk · Dec 28, 2005

hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
only a border, nothing else)..

the code i used was:

can someone suggest a better way (or what's wrong with urllib/urllib2)?
thanks alot!

Mike Meyer · Dec 28, 2005

hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
only a border, nothing else)..

Um - what else did you expect? You fetched a gif, you should get a gif.

the code i used was:

This looks like it works fine to me.

can someone suggest a better way (or what's wrong with urllib/urllib2)?
thanks alot!

Can you be more explicit about what you think is wrong with what
you're doing?

<mike

Alex Martelli · Dec 28, 2005

hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
only a border, nothing else)..

the code i used was:

Since you appear to want to write binary data, you should use 'wb', not
'w', as the "mode".

Alex

randomtalk · Dec 28, 2005

ah, wb works

thanks alot!

bonono · Dec 28, 2005

may be using wget/curl but then it is no longer python ;-)

annaiak · Dec 28, 2005

hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
only a border, nothing else)..

the code i used was:

can someone suggest a better way (or what's wrong with urllib/urllib2)?
thanks alot!

fetching images from web is my little hobby (but i dont know, if you
want fetch this kind of images). i sending my little script.

import urllib
for i in range(25,286,1):
if i<100: n='0'+str(i)
else: n=str(i)
for j in range(16):
if j<10: o='0'+str(j)
else: o=str(j)
s='used for error detecting'
url='http://www.paradisetoons.com/ima/toon'+str(i)+'/p'+str(j)+'.jpg'
fil='e:/pics/xxz37/prtn_'+n+'_'+o+'.jpg'
try:
s=urllib.urlopen(url).readline(6)
except:
print ''
if s.lower()=='<html>':
print 'file '+url+' does not exist'
else:
print 'downloading file: '+url
urllib.urlretrieve(url,fil)

any sugestions for doing this better?

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