Try To Scrape Image From Image Url (using Python Urllib ) But Get Html Instead

I've tried to get the image from the following url. http://upic.me/i/fj/the_wonderful_mist_once_again_01.jpg I can do right-click and save-as but when I tried to use urlretrieve

Solution 1:

You can use Requests, if you havn't installed yet, pip install requests

Because this img_url was redirected by the server to another html page ( that was the html page you just downloaded) if you didn't provide a referer header.

So the following code first find the redirect url, and add it to the HTTP Referer header.

import requests
img_url = 'http://upic.me/i/fj/the_wonderful_mist_once_again_01.jpg'

r = requests.get(img_url, allow_redirects=False)   #  stop redirect 302 , capture redirects url

headers = {}
headers['Referer'] = r.headers['location']    # add this url to referer 'http://upic.me/show/55132055'

r = requests.get(img_url, headers=headers)
filename = img_url.split('/')[-1]             # find the file name in `img_url`
with open(filename, 'wb') as fh:             # use 'wb' to write in binary mode
    fh.write(r.content)

Solution 2:

try like this:

import urllib2

image = urllib2.urlopen('http://upic.me/i/fj/the_wonderful_mist_once_again_01.jpg').read()
f = open('some_name.jpg','w')
f.write(image)
f.close()