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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Image

Python Requests library is one of the most popular libraries used for making HTTP requests in Python. It is used to interact with websites and APIs, and perform various tasks such as downloading files, extracting data from websites, etc. One of the common tasks is to download images from the web.

Using Requests and PIL Library

The most common way to download images using Python Requests is by using the Pillow (PIL) library to save the image from the response. Here's an example:


            import requests
            from PIL import Image

            # Make request
            response = requests.get("https://url_to_image.com")

            # Save image
            with open("image.jpg", "wb") as f:
                f.write(response.content)

            # Open image
            img = Image.open("image.jpg")
            img.show()

In this code, we first make a request to the URL of the image, and save the content of the response to a file called "image.jpg". We then open the file using the PIL library and display it using the show() method.

Using Requests and BytesIO

Another way to download images using Python Requests is by using the BytesIO object to read the content of the response and save it to a file. Here's an example:


            import requests
            from PIL import Image
            from io import BytesIO

            # Make request
            response = requests.get("https://url_to_image.com")

            # Save image
            img = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
            img.save("image.jpg")

            # Open image
            img.show()

In this code, we first make a request to the URL of the image, and read the content of the response using the BytesIO object. We then open the image using the PIL library and save it to a file called "image.jpg". We then display the image using the show() method.

Using Requests and OpenCV Library

If you want to perform image processing tasks on the downloaded image, you can use the OpenCV library along with Python Requests. Here's an example:


            import requests
            import cv2
            import numpy as np

            # Make request
            response = requests.get("https://url_to_image.com")

            # Read image
            img_array = np.array(bytearray(response.content), dtype=np.uint8)
            img = cv2.imdecode(img_array, cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)

            # Display image
            cv2.imshow("Image", img)
            cv2.waitKey(0)

In this code, we first make a request to the URL of the image, and read the content of the response as a byte array using NumPy. We then decode the byte array using OpenCV's imdecode() function, and display the image using OpenCV's imshow() function.

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