How to save an Image using URL in python/django

Question

If you were to save an Image using it's URL how would you do it ?

Also how do I give the Image a unique file name while saving it.

    response = urllib.urlopen(image_url)
    file_name = ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for x in range(10))
    f = open('/media/images/temp/'+file_name, "wb")
    f.write(response.read())
    f.close()

It throws no error nor saves the file... I'm new to this I have no clue what is going wrong : |

This question is quite vague. If you have a URL of an image, simply fetch it using wget (or urllib if within Python). Why don't you try doing it and then post back with problems you're facing? — Noufal Ibrahim
– Noufal Ibrahim, Commented May 25, 2011 at 7:54
If working on it since 4 hours doesn't qualify as trying I don't know what will. — Zach
– Zach, Commented May 25, 2011 at 8:01
Guys! finally a new error - [Errno ftp error] [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connectio failed because connected host has failed to respond. Please help. — Zach
– Zach, Commented May 25, 2011 at 8:14

Zaur Nasibov · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-25 08:05:57Z

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import urllib
import string
import random
import os

filename_charset = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
filename_length = 10
file_save_dir = '/home/user/download/'

filename = ''.join(random.choice(filename_charset)
                   for s in range(filename_length))

urllib.urlretrieve ("http://www.example.com/image.png", 
                    os.path.join(file_save_dir, filename + '.png'))

answered May 25, 2011 at 8:05

Zaur Nasibov

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Zach Over a year ago

finally a new error - [Errno ftp error] [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connectio failed because connected host has failed to respond

Noufal Ibrahim Over a year ago

The URL is an example. If you want someone to code up a complete program for you, you should perhaps consider hiring someone to do so.

Zach Over a year ago

It gives different errors for different URLs man... I don't know what to do.

Zaur Nasibov Over a year ago

I have just successfully retrieved Google's logo from google.com/images/logos/ps_logo2.png But Zach, there are no oracles here to guess, what are you trying to retrieve and which kind of errors you get. Any details on "different errors"?

Zach Over a year ago

Besides I've posted the question to learn what I'm doing wrong. Isn't that what StackOverflow's about ? I respect you guys for answering my queries so many times...it would be an understatement to say that you saved my life a couple of times too. But I detest how you discourage my curiosity. It's a shame.

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