fetching images from web?

[Mike Meyer]

randomtalk at gmail.com writes:
> hi, i want to automate some tasks of gathering photos from web, i tried
> urllib/urllib2, both ended up without much success (saved gifs with
> only a border, nothing else)..

Um - what else did you expect? You fetched a gif, you should get a gif.

> the code i used was:
>
>>>> data = urllib2.urlopen("http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/img/komodo_aspn_other.gif")  #was looking through cookbook, so i used that as a sample image
>>>> data = data.read()
>>>> file = open("f:/test.gif", "w")
>>>> file.write(data)
>>>> file.close()

This looks like it works fine to me.

> can someone suggest a better way (or what's wrong with urllib/urllib2)?
> thanks alot!

Can you be more explicit about what you think is wrong with what
you're doing?

       <mike
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