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Download image by URL [python | requests | wget]
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download-image.py
import requests
import shutil
#Setting URL and image name
image_url = "##########URL TO DOWNLOAD"##########"
filename = image_url.split("/")[-1]
# Open the url image, set stream to True, this will return the stream content.
r = requests.get(image_url, stream = True)
# Check if the image was retrieved successfully
if r.status_code == 200:
# Set decode_content value to True, otherwise the downloaded image file's size will be zero.
r.raw.decode_content = True
# Open a local file with wb ( write binary ) permission.
with open(filename,'wb') as f:
shutil.copyfileobj(r.raw, f)
print('Image sucessfully Downloaded: ',filename)
else:
print('Image Couldn\'t be retreived')
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