How do I print an image from a link in console?

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The image link is "https://cdn.discordapp.com/avatars/826439366439993354/c107a313dba5b75dd388c2fca5df68f9.png", I know I can print this using the pillow module if I download the .png, but how would I do this if it's not downloaded? Is there any way to do this without downloading the image, just printing it in the console?

What do you mean? You can't show an image without downloading it first. Either you download it, or a library you use will do it, but either way, it has to be downloaded first. So, what do you mean? You want a function that does it (download then print) for you? Or you want to save disk and download it in memory only? — chrslg, Oct 13 '22 at 17:34
I want it to use that picture from a URL only once without downloading it? If that's impossible, how do I make it download the picture, print it and delete it? — container, Oct 13 '22 at 17:35
You have to *download* the image, but you can avoid *saving* it to a file. — CrazyChucky, Oct 13 '22 at 17:48

Furkan Akdag · Answer 1 · 2022-10-13T17:42:59.530

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You can use BytesIO

from PIL import Image
import requests
from io import BytesIO

url = "https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/512/164/164372.png"
response = requests.get(url)
img = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
display(img)

edited Oct 13 '22 at 17:42

answered Oct 13 '22 at 17:34

Furkan Akdag

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Doesn't do anything, no errors, no nothing. What should I do? I am doing the following: response = requests.get(pfpurl) print(response.content) img = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content)) .... Is that because the image address is different or does that not matter? – container Oct 13 '22 at 17:38
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You have to write display(img) to end of the code, can you try this? – Furkan Akdag Oct 13 '22 at 17:42
what do you mean? – container Oct 13 '22 at 17:43
I edited the code block, please try with it. It has to work. – Furkan Akdag Oct 13 '22 at 17:44
I get the following error: "AttributeError: type object 'Image' has no attribute 'open'" for the line: " img = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))" – container Oct 13 '22 at 17:46
Then you must have redfined/shadowed `Image` previously in your code. – CrazyChucky Oct 13 '22 at 17:47
Sorry, what do you mean? – container Oct 13 '22 at 17:47
You must have defined your own variable named `Image`. The `Image` imported from `PIL` *does* have an `open` attribute. – CrazyChucky Oct 13 '22 at 17:49
Fixed, now I get "PIL.UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x0000000003A70770>" – container Oct 13 '22 at 17:51
@FurkanAkdag manually wrapping with `BytesIO` isn't actually necessary anymore. – CrazyChucky Oct 13 '22 at 17:51
@container Can you try to change the importing of PIL => import PIL.Image and change the img part as => img = PIL.Image.open(BytesIO(response.content)) – Furkan Akdag Oct 13 '22 at 17:52
@CrazyChucky I did not know that, this code block works anyway :D – Furkan Akdag Oct 13 '22 at 17:53
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It does, sure. But you can remove the `BytesIO` and just use `response.raw`. Pillow handles the rest automatically. https://stackoverflow.com/a/40944159/12975140 – CrazyChucky Oct 13 '22 at 17:54
I get "PIL.UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x0000000003AF0950>" – container Oct 13 '22 at 17:54
Well that's definitely strange. I can open that URL in a browser, but it appears Pillow isn't recognizing it as a valid image. – CrazyChucky Oct 13 '22 at 17:57
Yeah same, maybe it's because it has a different image address? – container Oct 13 '22 at 17:58
What do you mean "different image address"? – CrazyChucky Oct 13 '22 at 17:58
Actually the code block works on my local and the image is displayed on my PyCharm – Furkan Akdag Oct 13 '22 at 18:00
I am trying to load the following url: "https://cdn.discordapp.com/avatars/826439366439993354/c107a313dba5b75dd388c2fca5df68f9.png" and it gives me that error, if you right click and click copy image address, it's something different. – container Oct 13 '22 at 18:06

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 13 '22 at 17:37

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Maybe this will help you get the image: How do I read image data from a URL in Python?

And this should help you display it: How to show PIL Image in ipython notebook

answered Oct 13 '22 at 17:37

NicoFoth

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How do I print an image from a link in console?

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