CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Michael
Michael

Reputation: 157

download images & files from a webpage with python

Hi I'm learning how to code & script with python

I have just finished writing a script that finds all images on a webpage and prints the links onto the screen, I'm now trying to get it to download the images that where printed onto the screen to a temp folder within the C: drive (C:\temp).

I'm not sure how to do that though and after trying to search the web i couldn't get anything to work. How can i download the images that i found without changing my code to much?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 244

Answers (1)

vaultah
vaultah

Reputation: 46593

urllib.urlretrieve for Python 2.7:

import urllib
urllib.urlretrieve(url, absolute_path_for_downloaded_file)

urllib.request.urlretrieve for Python 3:

import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, absolute_path_for_downloaded_file)

Make the following modifications to your code:

  1. Somewhere at the top of the script:

    import os.path # [+] Added line
import urllib  # [+] Added line

  2. Inside the getImage function:

    print '[+]', str(len(images)), 'Images Found:'

for img in images:
    print img

return images  # [+] Added line

  3. Inside the main function:

    # Get the web page
page = webpage.wget(sys.argv[1])
# Get the links
for x in getImage(page): # [+] Modified line
    urllib.urlretrieve(x, os.path.join('C:\\temp', x.split('/')[-1])) # [+] Modified line

Upvotes: 2

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