fetching images from web?

Wed Dec 28 07:30:36 EST 2005

randomtalk at gmail.com wrote:
> 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)..
> 
> 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()
> 
> 
> 
> can someone suggest a better way (or what's wrong with urllib/urllib2)?
> thanks alot!
> 
fetching images from web is my little hobby (but i dont know, if you 
want fetch this kind of images). i sending my little script.

import urllib
for i in range(25,286,1):
	if i<100: n='0'+str(i)
	else: n=str(i)
	for j in range(16):
		if j<10: o='0'+str(j)
		else: o=str(j)
		s='used for error detecting'
				url='http://www.paradisetoons.com/ima/toon'+str(i)+'/p'+str(j)+'.jpg'
		fil='e:/pics/xxz37/prtn_'+n+'_'+o+'.jpg'
		try:
			s=urllib.urlopen(url).readline(6)
		except:
			print ''
		if s.lower()=='<html>':
			print 'file '+url+' does not exist'
		else:	
			print 'downloading file: '+url
			urllib.urlretrieve(url,fil)

any sugestions for doing this better?