Simple instructions on how to programmatically download an image from a web page?

[Matt Goodall]

Y2KYZFR1 wrote:

>I have search the group and not found a working example on how to
>simply download a .gif from a url.
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I guess you didn't think to search the documentation too ;-).

>something as simple as
>http://groups.google.com/images/threadview_logo.gif should be pretty
>easy, guess not?
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 >>> import urllib
 >>> data = urllib.urlopen(imageUrl).read()

Cheers, Matt

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