Vladyslav
Vladyslav

Reputation: 2265

Download an image from image url

I have simple django project and I want to download image from website to my media. Url looks like this: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ks-_Mh1QhMc/hqdefault.jpg

How can i do this using python 3.x?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8301

Answers (2)

K J
K J

Reputation: 11938

By far the simplest and fastest way to download one or more public accessible files with an extension (here it is JPG but could be DOC or PDF etc.) is curl.

It should be available cross-platforms and easy to OSshell.

For a single file we just default its own name and it is down faster than one second:

curl -O https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ks-_Mh1QhMc/hqdefault.jpg

enter image description here

It will retain the remote name as here hqdefault.jpg.

However if the name is missing or embedded partway in the URL we need to assign a name using lowercase -o rather than Uppercase -O for example:

curl -o Matrix.png https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/matrix/images/8/84/Matrix.png/revision/latest?cb=20110307094037

We can thus simply provide a list of scrapped URLS in a list of mix and match with curl prefix and later run as a shell script. Here in Windows:

enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Bhushan Uniyal
Bhushan Uniyal

Reputation: 5703

use urllib.request

import urllib.request as req

    imgurl ="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ks-_Mh1QhMc/hqdefault.jpg"

    req.urlretrieve(imgurl, "image_name.jpg")

Upvotes: 6

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