How can I download and upload an image using a url in django-python 2.7 using urllib 2

Question

I am using beautiful soup to scrap data from Foodily-food website. I am new to python so I have litle knowledge of file handling in python, my requirement is to scrap data from above above url and then download an image and uploading that to my project.

I have got src of image using:

image = soup.find("img",{"itemprop":"image"})['src']

Now I need to download this image and then upload it. I have used below code to retrieve image and read it:

 img = urllib2.urlopen(image)
    html = img.read()
    return HttpResponse(html)

I have got output in some encoded form and don't what to do further with it.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Possible duplicate of [Downloading a picture via urllib and python](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3042757/downloading-a-picture-via-urllib-and-python) — wiesson, Aug 05 '16 at 12:01
@wiesson that question is asked using urllib and I need to use urllib2 — Always_a_learner, Aug 05 '16 at 12:04
urllib is also a python standard library. You wrote, you would like to download the image and then "upload it". Where would you like to upload it? — wiesson, Aug 05 '16 at 12:08
I just want to save it to some directory I think I just need to download it. — Always_a_learner, Aug 05 '16 at 12:11
@wiesson can you tell me if I get image then how I can save it to my directory? — Always_a_learner, Aug 05 '16 at 12:51

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

Save an image with urllib2

import urllib2
img_src = 'https://unsplash.it/500/300'

response = urllib2.urlopen(img_src)
image = response.read()

with open('your_image_name.jpg', 'wb') as out:
    out.write(image)

Please note that urllib2 is different in python2 and python3. Regarding django, please take a look at https://github.com/divio/django-filer and/or https://github.com/SmileyChris/easy-thumbnails to save images properly.

Further, to download the images, take a look at http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/ as jinkspadlock suggested.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 05 '16 at 12:10

I use requests and shutil:

import requests
import shutil

response = requests.get(iconurl, stream=True)
with open(iconfilepath, 'wb') as out_file:
    shutil.copyfileobj(response.raw, out_file)
del response

How can I download and upload an image using a url in django-python 2.7 using urllib 2

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