I need to copy a remote image (for example http://example.com/image.jpg
) to my server. Is this possible?
How do you verify that this is indeed an image?
To download:
import urllib2
img = urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com/image.jpg").read()
To verify can use PIL
import StringIO
from PIL import Image
try:
im = Image.open(StringIO.StringIO(img))
im.verify()
except Exception, e:
# The image is not valid
If you just want to verify this is an image even if the image data is not valid: You can use imghdr
import imghdr
imghdr.what('ignore', img)
The method checks the headers and determines the image type. It will return None if the image was not identifiable.