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pythonpython-3.xgoogle-mapsurllibgoogle-street-view
Maverick
Maverick

Reputation: 799

Python, Google street view API - HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

I am trying to use some code to download Google street view images.

Code so far is: 

import urllib, os
import urllib.request

myloc = r"C:\Users\blah\blah" #replace with your own location
key = "&key=" + "enter your key" #got banned after ~100 requests with no key

def GetStreet(Add,SaveLoc):
  base = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=400x400&location="
  MyUrl = base + Add + key
  fi = Add + ".jpg"
  urllib.request.urlretrieve(MyUrl, os.path.join(SaveLoc,fi))

Tests = ["457 West Robinwood Street, Detroit, Michigan 48203",
         "1520 West Philadelphia, Detroit, Michigan 48206",
         "2292 Grand, Detroit, Michigan 48238",
         "15414 Wabash Street, Detroit, Michigan 48238",
         "15867 Log Cabin, Detroit, Michigan 48238",
         "3317 Cody Street, Detroit, Michigan 48212",
         "14214 Arlington Street, Detroit, Michigan 48212"]

for i in Tests:
  GetStreet(Add=i,SaveLoc=myloc)

I've added this by importing urllib.request and adding urllib.request.urlretrieve(MyUrl, os.path.join(SaveLoc,fi)) to overcome AttributeError: module ‘urllib’ has no attribute ‘urlretrieve’.

However am now getting urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request but am not quite sure why or how to fix this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 973

Answers (1)

Brad Dre
Brad Dre

Reputation: 3856

You're close, but urllib doesn't url-encode parameters by default. You need to call the quoter explicitly. The API is returning 400 because the URL is not correctly formatted when the address has spaces in it. Try adding this:

MyUrl = base + urllib.quote_plus(Add) + key

Note: it looks like you're using Python 2. Python 3 requires:

import urllib.parse
MyUrl = base + urllib.parse.quote_plus(Add) + key

Upvotes: 1

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