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Python Code not opening VlC player of twitch stream instances

Hello so I don't stream right but wanted to make a video on peoples reactions when they are suddenly hit with a lot of people (this would be accompanied by a chat bot too and ill tell them what it was as well as ask for use permissions). So I thought it would be fun to look at view bots for twitch and found one online (code below). so I ran in installed streamlink via Pip and windows executable and it seems to run "found matching plugin twitch for URL "Stream link"" but it doesn't actually increase viewership and I can only assume this is because its not actually opening the Vlc instances, so here I am wondering what I need to do I have the latest version of python and git isnt trying to download and install anything so im assuming streamlink is all I need but im kind confused why it woudnt be opening the VLC instance any help is most appreciated.
Edit: oh and I do have the proxies and using a small amount to try and get it to work first, and will buy more later but after I get this to work!
import concurrent.futures, time, random, os
#desired channel url
channel_url = 'https://www.twitch.tv/StreamerName'
#number of viewer bots
botcount = 10
#path to proxies.txt file
proxypath = "C:\Proxy\proxy.txt"
#path to vlc
playerpath = r'"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"'
#takes proxies from proxies.txt and returns to list
def create_proxy_list(proxyfile, shared_list):
with open(proxyfile, 'r') as file:
proxies = [line.strip() for line in file]
for i in proxies:
shared_list.append((i))
return shared_list
#takes random proxies from the proxies list and adds them to another list
def randproxy(proxylist, botcount):
randomproxylist = list()
for _ in range(botcount):
proxy = random.choice(proxylist)
randomproxylist.append(proxy)
proxylist.remove(proxy)
return (randomproxylist)
#launches a viewer bot after a short delay
def launchbots(proxy):
time.sleep(random.randint(5, 10))
os.system(f'streamlink --player={playerpath} --player-no-close --player-http --hls-segment-timeout 30 --hls-segment-attempts 3 --retry-open 1 --retry-streams 1 --retry-max 1 --http-stream-timeout 3600 --http-proxy {proxy} {channel_url} worst')
#calls the launchbots function asynchronously
def main(randomproxylist):
with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor() as executer:
executer.map(launchbots, randomproxylist)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(randproxy(create_proxy_list(proxypath, shared_list=list()), botcount))

How to make python download an image from a URL but if the image is already downloaded it doesnt

So say from a random api, lets say api.example.com as an example. It sends a random image once you go on it and sends the json for it. So like {"url": "api.example.com/img1.png"}. After de-jsonifying it how can i download the image and save it in some folder, but if its already downloaded so say the image name is taken it will not download it.
Edit: here is my code i done so far.
`
url = f"https://nekos.life/api/v2/img/neko"
response = requests.get(url)
response.raise_for_status()
jsonResponse = response.`json()
urll = (jsonResponse["url"])
urllib.request.urlretrieve(urll, "neko.png")`

as said in this article, i think [os.path][1] can do the job pretty well.
just try to use
os.path.exists(phot_path)
that should be it.
[1]: https://linuxize.com/post/python-check-if-file-exists/

Python - Downloading PDF and saving to disk using Selenium

I'm creating an application that downloads PDF's from a website and saves them to disk. I understand the Requests module is capable of this but is not capable of handling the logic behind the download (File size, progress, time remaining etc.).
I've created the program using selenium thus far and would like to eventually incorporate this into a GUI Tkinter app eventually.
What would be the best way to handle the downloading, tracking and eventually creating a progress bar?
This is my code so far:
from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep
import requests
import secrets
class manual_grabber():
""" A class creating a manual downloader for the Roger Technology website """
def __init__(self):
""" Initialize attributes of manual grabber """
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome('\\Users\\Joel\\Desktop\\Python\\manual_grabber\\chromedriver.exe')
def login(self):
""" Function controlling the login logic """
self.driver.get('https://rogertechnology.it/en/b2b')
sleep(1)
# Locate elements and enter login details
user_in = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[2]/form/input[6]')
user_in.send_keys(secrets.username)
pass_in = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[2]/form/input[7]')
pass_in.send_keys(secrets.password)
enter_button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[2]/form/div/input')
enter_button.click()
# Click Self Service Area button
self_service_button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1"]/ul/li[1]/a')
self_service_button.click()
def download_file(self):
"""Access file tree and navigate to PDF's and download"""
# Wait for all elements to load
sleep(3)
# Find and switch to iFrame
frame = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="siteOutFrame"]/iframe')
self.driver.switch_to.frame(frame)
# Find and click tech manuals button
tech_manuals_button = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="fileTree_1"]/ul/li/ul/li[6]/a')
tech_manuals_button.click()
bot = manual_grabber()
bot.login()
bot.download_file()
So in summary, I'd like to make this code download PDF's on a website, store them in a specific directory (named after it's parent folder in the JQuery File Tree) and keep tracking of the progress (file size, time remaining etc.)
Here is the DOM:
I hope this is enough information. Any more required please let me know.

I would recommend using tqdm and the request module for this.
Here is a sample code that effectively achieves that hard job of downloading and updating progress bar.
from tqdm import tqdm
import requests
url = "http://www.ovh.net/files/10Mb.dat" #big file test
# Streaming, so we can iterate over the response.
response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
total_size_in_bytes= int(response.headers.get('content-length', 0))
block_size = 1024 #1 Kibibyte
progress_bar = tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit='iB', unit_scale=True)
with open('test.dat', 'wb') as file:
for data in response.iter_content(block_size):
progress_bar.update(len(data)) #change this to your widget in tkinter
file.write(data)
progress_bar.close()
if total_size_in_bytes != 0 and progress_bar.n != total_size_in_bytes:
print("ERROR, something went wrong")
The block_size is your file-size and the time-remaining can be calculated with the number of iterations performed per second with respect to the block-size that remains. Here is an alternative - How to measure download speed and progress using requests?

Upload image to facebook using the Python API

I have searched the web far and wide for a still working example of uploading a photo to facebook through the Python API (Python for Facebook). Questions like this have been asked on stackoverflow before but non of the answers I have found work anymore.
What I got working is:
import facebook as fb
cfg = {
"page_id" : "my_page_id",
"access_token" : "my_access_token"
}
api = get_api(cfg)
msg = "Hello world!"
status = api.put_wall_post(msg)
where I have defined the get_api(cfg) function as this
graph = fb.GraphAPI(cfg['access_token'], version='2.2')
# Get page token to post as the page. You can skip
# the following if you want to post as yourself.
resp = graph.get_object('me/accounts')
page_access_token = None
for page in resp['data']:
if page['id'] == cfg['page_id']:
page_access_token = page['access_token']
graph = fb.GraphAPI(page_access_token)
return graph
And this does indeed post a message to my page.
However, if I instead want to upload an image everything goes wrong.
# Upload a profile photo for a Page.
api.put_photo(image=open("path_to/my_image.jpg",'rb').read(), message='Here's my image')
I get the dreaded GraphAPIError: (#324) Requires upload file for which non of the solutions on stackoverflow works for me.
If I instead issue the following command
api.put_photo(image=open("path_to/my_image.jpg",'rb').read(), album_path=cfg['page_id'] + "/picture")
I get GraphAPIError: (#1) Could not fetch picture for which I haven't been able to find a solution either.
Could someone out there please point me in the right direction of provide me with a currently working example? It would be greatly appreciated, thanks !

A 324 Facebook error can result from a few things depending on how the photo upload call was made
a missing image
an image not recognised by Facebook
incorrect directory path reference
A raw cURL call looks like
curl -F 'source=#my_image.jpg' 'https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?access_token=YOUR_TOKEN'
As long as the above calls works, you can be sure the photo agrees with Facebook servers.
An example of how a 324 error can occur
touch meow.jpg
curl -F 'source=#meow.jpg' 'https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?access_token=YOUR_TOKEN'
This can also occur for corrupted image files as you have seen.
Using .read() will dump the actual data
Empty File
>>> image=open("meow.jpg",'rb').read()
>>> image
''
Image File
>>> image=open("how.png",'rb').read()
>>> image
'\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n\x00\x00\x00\rIHDR\x00...
Both of these will not work with the call api.put_photo as you have seen and Klaus D. mentioned the call should be without read()
So this call
api.put_photo(image=open("path_to/my_image.jpg",'rb').read(), message='Here's my image')
actually becomes
api.put_photo('\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n\x00\x00\x00\rIHDR\x00...', message='Here's my image')
Which is just a string, which isn't what is wanted.
One needs the image reference <open file 'how.png', mode 'rb' at 0x1085b2390>

I know this is old and doesn't answer the question with the specified API, however, I came upon this via a search and hopefully my solution will help travelers on a similar path.
Using requests and tempfile
A quick example of how I do it using the tempfile and requests modules.
Download an image and upload to Facebook
The script below should grab an image from a given url, save it to a file within a temporary directory and automatically cleanup after finished.
In addition, I can confirm this works running on a Flask service on Google Cloud Run. That comes with the container runtime contract so that we can store the file in-memory.
import tempfile
import requests
# setup stuff - certainly change this
filename = "your-desired-filename"
filepath = f"{directory}/{filename}"
image_url = "your-image-url"
act_id = "your account id"
access_token = "your access token"
# create the temporary directory
temp_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
directory = temp_dir.name
# stream the image bytes
res = requests.get(image_url, stream=True)
# write them to your filename at your temporary directory
# assuming this works
# add logic for non 200 status codes
with open(filepath, "wb+") as f:
f.write(res.content)
# prep the payload for the facebook call
files = {
"filename": open(filepath, "rb"),
}
url = f"https://graph.facebook.com/v10.0/{act_id}/adimages?access_token={access_token}"
# send the POST request
res = requests.post(url, files=files)
res.raise_for_status()
if res.status_code == 200:
# get your image data back
image_upload_data = res.json()
temp_dir.cleanup()
if "images" in image_upload_data:
return image_upload_data["images"][filepath.split("/")[-1]]
return image_upload_data
temp_dir.cleanup() # paranoid: just in case an error isn't raised

Python Telegram Bot - Send Image

I'd like to send a Image (via URL or Path), on request.
I use the source code here.
The code has already a sample to send an image (via URL or Path), but I don't get it since I'm new to Python.
Here's the sample code snippet:
elif text == '/image': #request
img = Image.new('RGB', (512, 512))
base = random.randint(0, 16777216)
pixels = [base+i*j for i in range(512) for j in range(512)] # generate sample image
img.putdata(pixels)
output = StringIO.StringIO()
img.save(output, 'JPEG')
reply(img=output.getvalue())
Some API infos can be found here.
Thanks for your patience.

To send a photo from URL:
bot.send_photo(chat_id=chat_id, photo='https://telegram.org/img/t_logo.png')
To send a photo from local Drive:
bot.send_photo(chat_id=chat_id, photo=open('tests/test.png', 'rb'))
Here is the reference documentation.

I was struggling to connect the python-telegram-bot examples with the above advice. Especially, while having context and update, I couldnt find chatid and bot. Now, my two cents:
pic=os.path.expanduser("~/a.png")
context.bot.send_photo(chat_id=update.effective_chat.id, photo=open(pic,'rb'))