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Ivan Shelonik
Ivan Shelonik

Reputation: 2028

scipy misc imread from web url

Is there possible to imread image from web url using scipy misc, or am I obliged to save the image from web then imread and delete it? I could not find an elegant solution.

from scipy.misc import imread

url = 'https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtUPjSSDzevfy47QqVpd8v2Nrt49QNIXeAfE9ntEwYKJtnDZabwg'

img = imread(url, mode='RGB')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2302

Answers (1)

MB-F
MB-F

Reputation: 23637

imread takes either a file name or a file object. You can open a url like a file with urllib.request.urlopen(Python 3) and pass the file object to imread.

from urllib.request import urlopen
from scipy.misc import imread

url = 'https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtUPjSSDzevfy47QqVpd8v2Nrt49QNIXeAfE9ntEwYKJtnDZabwg'

with urlopen(url) as file:
    img = imread(file, mode='RGB')

For Python 2: urllib2.urlopen

Upvotes: 3

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