为什么Python中的“请求”无法下载此网址图片，但浏览器可以下载？

Question

I have the following url that is actually an image.

https://cache.mrporter.com/images/products/908290/908290_mrp_in_l.jpg

I am using the below Python code to download it

import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
import requests
response = requests.get("https://cache.mrporter.com/images/products/908290/908290_mrp_in_l.jpg")

I see that the requests.get just hangs and if I use a timeout of even 5 seconds I get the TimeOut Exception.

However, when I paste the url in the browser, I immediately see it open.

I am really stuck here and trying to understand what the problem is.

Answer 1

It looks like the website needs an User-Agent . You could try with the following

headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36'}
response = requests.get("https://cache.mrporter.com/images/products/908290/908290_mrp_in_l.jpg", headers=headers)

This returns <Response [200]>