如何通过 Python urllib.urlretrieve() 在 flickr 中下载图像？

Question

I have a problem that when dowloading a image from flickr.com,the python function urllib.urlretrieve() always return an error

[Errno socket error] (10060, 'Operation timed out')

for example:

import urllib

url = "http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2659/4207030547_23e6000d29_o.gif"
urllib.urlretrieve(url,"C://tmp.gif")

I am Chinese,and I dont know if the "time out" has anything to do with the speed of the the internet in China.

Now it falied in downing the .gif! what should i do about this? THX~~~

Any suggestion is appreciated~~~

Answer 1

I can't reproduce.

The exact same code downloaded the picture.

I'm using python 2.7

It has to do either with the server (at that time) or with your internet connection.

Answer 2

The reason you cannot download the image from flickr is that, China has a freaking WALL that's blocking you! You can try to use a VPN that works globally on your computer (so that your python program also runs under this VPN environment), or,

you set up the proxies in, let's say requests , then you can download images from those websites that are blocked from China.

import requests

proxies = {
 “http”: “http://10.10.10.10:8000”,   # just an example
 “https”: “http://10.10.10.10:8000”,  # just an example
}
r = requests.get(“http://example_url.com”, proxies=proxies)

Answer 3

Try the "get" method. I have recently had to do the same thing and I solved the problem with the following:

import requests
url = "https://www.python.org/static/community_logos/python-logo-master-v3-TM.png"
try:
    r = requests.get(url,allow_redirects = True)
    if(r.status_code == 200):
        open("Image.jpg","wb").write(r.content)
    elif(r.status_code == 404):
        print("Image not found at the URL")
    else:
        print("Unknown error occurred.")
except:
    print("Could not establish connection with the site URL.")

Answer 4

考虑改用urllib2库，它允许您指定超时（在 Python 2.6+ 中）。