Python: Retrieve a file from url and generate data: URI

Question

I've a url to gravatar image as

url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0eee0fa5a325a984dab6c1e9c7a1968f?d=retro&s=40"

And I want to generate data:URI for it like following in python

data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoCAIAAAADnC86AAAAjklEQVRYhWP0E3dnIAUY9jdiFT9fWE+SOUwkqaYiGHkWs+CSQI5LUuOPGL0jL6gHzGJGYvIxrryLCxCTJkZeUI9aPGoxzQDOshoXwJVHSc3rIy+oB0dZTa32FDHmjLygHnz5GDk+KKmPcekdeUE9OPIxMsDVNiYmj462qweVxUS1q2kBRl5Qj1o8ajHNAABQ3ieujBTqugAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==

Please provide your code attempt for this. And explain what is currently not working out for you. — idjaw, Mar 03 '16 at 13:00

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 26 '17 at 21:30

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Use base64 and requests:

import base64
import requests

url = "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0eee0fa5a325a984dab6c1e9c7a1968f?d=retro&s=40"
response = requests.get(url)
content_type = response.headers["content-type"]
encoded_body = base64.b64encode(response.content)
print("data:{};base64,{}".format(content_type, encoded_body.decode()))

Response:

data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoCAIAAAADnC86AAAAjklEQVRYhWP0E3dnIAUY9jdiFT9fWE+SOUwkqaYiGHkWs+CSQI5LUuOPGL0jL6gHzGJGYvIxrryLCxCTJkZeUI9aPGoxzQDOshoXwJVHSc3rIy+oB0dZTa32FDHmjLygHnz5GDk+KKmPcekdeUE9OPIxMsDVNiYmj462qweVxUS1q2kBRl5Qj1o8ajHNAABQ3ieujBTqugAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==

edited Jul 26 '17 at 21:30

Smart Manoj

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answered Mar 03 '16 at 14:11

Showing the error `AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'encodebytes'` – Satwik Mar 03 '16 at 14:16
What version of Python do you use? – Mar 03 '16 at 14:17
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I am using python 2.7 – Satwik Mar 03 '16 at 14:18
Then use https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/base64.html#base64.b64encode instead. – Mar 03 '16 at 14:21
why are you encoding and then decoding? – Mojimi Mar 29 '19 at 17:58

Python: Retrieve a file from url and generate data: URI

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