Python: Download Images from Google

Question

I am using google's books API to fetch information about books based on ISBN number. I am getting thumbnails in response along with other information. The response looks like this:

 "imageLinks": {
 "smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tEDhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
 "thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tEDhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},

I want to download thumbnails on the links above and store them on local file system. How can it be done python?

Answer 1

Use urllib module

Ex:

import urllib

d = {"imageLinks": {
     "smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tEDhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
     "thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tEDhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
     }
}

urllib.urlretrieve(d["imageLinks"]["thumbnail"], "MyThumbNail.jpg")

Python3X

from urllib import request

with open("MyThumbNail.jpg", "wb") as infile:
    infile.write(request.urlopen(d["imageLinks"]["thumbnail"]).read())

Answer 2

Send a HTTP request to the corresponding URL, and fetch the content . Then write the content to a file.

See the example,

imageLinks = {
    "smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tEDhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
    "thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tEDhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
}
import requests

img = requests.get(imageLinks['thumbnail']).content
with open("myfile.jpg", 'wb') as img_file:
    img_file.write(img)