fetching images from web?

[randomtalk]

hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
only a border, nothing else)..

the code i used was:

data = urllib2.urlopen ("http://aspn.activestat e.com/ASPN/img/komodo_aspn_oth er.gif") #was looking through cookbook, so i used that as a sample image
data = data.read()
file = open("f:/test.gif", "w")
file.write(data )
file.close()

can someone suggest a better way (or what's wrong with urllib/urllib2)?
thanks alot!

[Mike Meyer]

ra********@gmai l.com writes:

hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
only a border, nothing else)..
Um - what else did you expect? You fetched a gif, you should get a gif.
the code i used was:

data = urllib2.urlopen ("http://aspn.activestat e.com/ASPN/img/komodo_aspn_oth er.gif") #was looking through cookbook, so i used that as a sample image
data = data.read()
file = open("f:/test.gif", "w")
file.write(data )
file.close()

This looks like it works fine to me.
can someone suggest a better way (or what's wrong with urllib/urllib2)?
thanks alot!

Can you be more explicit about what you think is wrong with what
you're doing?

<mike
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[Alex Martelli]

<ra********@gma il.com> wrote:

hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
only a border, nothing else)..

the code i used was:

data = urllib2.urlopen ( "http://aspn.activestat e.com/ASPN/img/komodo_aspn_oth er.gif") #was looking through cookbook, so i used that as a sample image
data = data.read()
file = open("f:/test.gif", "w")

Since you appear to want to write binary data, you should use 'wb', not
'w', as the "mode".
Alex

[randomtalk]

ah, wb works :D thanks alot!

[bonono]

may be using wget/curl but then it is no longer python ;-)

ra********@gmai l.com wrote:

hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
only a border, nothing else)..

the code i used was:

data = urllib2.urlopen ("http://aspn.activestat e.com/ASPN/img/komodo_aspn_oth er.gif") #was looking through cookbook, so i used that as a sample image
data = data.read()
file = open("f:/test.gif", "w")
file.write(data )
file.close()

can someone suggest a better way (or what's wrong with urllib/urllib2)?
thanks alot!

[annaiak]

ra********@gmai l.com wrote:

hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
only a border, nothing else)..

the code i used was:

data = urllib2.urlopen ("http://aspn.activestat e.com/ASPN/img/komodo_aspn_oth er.gif") #was looking through cookbook, so i used that as a sample image
data = data.read()
file = open("f:/test.gif", "w")
file.write( data)
file.close( )

can someone suggest a better way (or what's wrong with urllib/urllib2)?
thanks alot!

fetching images from web is my little hobby (but i dont know, if you
want fetch this kind of images). i sending my little script.

import urllib
for i in range(25,286,1) :
if i<100: n='0'+str(i)
else: n=str(i)
for j in range(16):
if j<10: o='0'+str(j)
else: o=str(j)
s='used for error detecting'
url='http://www.paradisetoo ns.com/ima/toon'+str(i)+'/p'+str(j)+'.jpg '
fil='e:/pics/xxz37/prtn_'+n+'_'+o+ '.jpg'
try:
s=urllib.urlope n(url).readline (6)
except:
print ''
if s.lower()=='<ht ml>':
print 'file '+url+' does not exist'
else:
print 'downloading file: '+url
urllib.urlretri eve(url,fil)

any sugestions for doing this better?