Python error: PIL.UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x1144e9860>

Question

I have the following script that prints the src path and sizes of all images on a specified url:

from requests_html import HTMLSession
from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from PIL import Image
import requests

url="https://example.com/"

session = HTMLSession()
r = session.get(url)

b  = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(b.text, "lxml")

images = soup.find_all('img')

for img in images:
    if img.has_attr('src') :
        imgsize = Image.open(requests.get(img['src'], stream=True).raw)
        print(img['src'], imgsize.size)

It works fine for some url's but for others i get the following error:

PIL.UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x10782e900>

Is there a way to overcome this error?

chitown88 · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-23T14:19:35.610

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Without having your specific url, I can't go and see why that's happening. But you can put in there a try/except so your script doesn't crash and will continue onto the next img

from requests_html import HTMLSession
from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from PIL import Image
import requests

url="https://example.com/"

session = requests.Session()
r = session.get(url)

b  = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(b.text, "lxml")

images = soup.find_all('img')

for img in images:
    if img.has_attr('src') :
        try:
            img_link = img['src']
            if img_link.startswith('data:image'):
                img_link = img['data-src']
            imgsize = Image.open(requests.get(img_link, stream=True).raw)
            print(img_link, imgsize.size)
        
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)

edited Apr 23 '21 at 14:19

answered Apr 23 '21 at 12:25

chitown88

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Thanks. SVG images error too:No connection adapters were found for "data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8, – chappers Apr 23 '21 at 13:50
can you share the url you are using? – chitown88 Apr 23 '21 at 13:52
Yes its scanlite dot co dot uk (no www.) – chappers Apr 23 '21 at 13:58
Ah ok. Yup, those errors are pecouse there are svg. PIL does not support svg file [(read here)](https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/handbook/image-file-formats.html). You'll need to use a different package for those – chitown88 Apr 23 '21 at 14:14
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But there was a small adjustment needed on some others. I updated the code – chitown88 Apr 23 '21 at 14:19

Python error: PIL.UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x1144e9860>

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