Python 3.4.3 save image from url to file using urllib - python

I tried to make a python program that would allow me to download a jpg file from a website.
Why I'm doing this is really for no reason at all, I just wanted to try it for fun.
Anyways, here is the code:
import urllib
a = 1
while a == 1:
urllib.urlretrieve("http://lemerg.com/data/wallpapers/38/957049.jpg","D:\\Users\\Elias\\Desktop\\FolderName-957049.jpg")
(You may have to properly tab it in, it wouldn't let me here)
So basically what I want it to do is to repeatedly download the same file until I close the program. Just don't ask why.
The error code I get is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
urllib.urlretrieve("http://lemerg.com/data/wallpapers/38/957049.jpg","D:\Users\Elias\Desktop\FolderName-957049.jpg")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlretrieve'

urlretrieve() in Python3 is in the urllib.request module. Do this:
from urllib import request
a = 1
while a == 1:
request.urlretrieve("http://lemerg.com/data/wallpapers/38/957049.jpg","D:\\Users\\Elias\\Desktop\\FolderName-957049.jpg")

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Python - Web Scraping exercise - Attribute Error

I am learning how to scrape web information. Below is a snippet of the actual code solution + output from datacamp.
On datacamp, this works perfectly fine, but when I try to run it on Spyder (my own macbook), it doesn't work...
This is because on datacamp, the URL has already been pre-loaded into a variable named 'response'.. however on Spyder, the URL needs to be defined again.
So, I first defined the response variable as response = requests.get('https://www.datacamp.com/courses/all') so that the code will point to datacamp's website..
My code looks like:
from scrapy.selector import Selector
import requests
response = requests.get('https://www.datacamp.com/courses/all')
this_url = response.url
this_title = response.xpath('/html/head/title/text()').extract_first()
print_url_title( this_url, this_title )
When I run this on Spyder, I got an error message
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython-input-30-6a8340fd3a71>", line 11, in <module>
this_title = response.xpath('/html/head/title/text()').extract_first()
AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'xpath'
Could someone please guide me? I would really like to know how to get this code working on Spyder.. thank you very much.
The value returned by requests.get('https://www.datacamp.com/courses/all') is a Response object, and this object has no attribute xpath, hence the error: AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'xpath'
I assume response from your tutorial source, probably has been assigned to another object (most likely the object returned by etree.HTML) and not the value returned by requests.get(url).
You can however do this:
from lxml import etree #import etree
response = requests.get('https://www.datacamp.com/courses/all') #get the Response object
tree = etree.HTML(response.text) #pass the page's source using the Response object
result = tree.xpath('/html/head/title/text()') #extract the value
print(response.url) #url
print(result) #findings

How to download photos from Flickr by Flickr API in Python 3

noob question series...
I am a new learner of python, recently want to create a small python application that can collect photos from flickr based on different search input. (eg: if i input "dog", it will download all dog images from flickr)
I did some research online and notice that flickr API might be the best way and the method flickr.photos.getSizes should be the one I need to use.
However, I have few stupid questions when coding:
I have applied my key and secret for flickr API, I just don't know what to do next with flickr.photos.getSizes in python to download photos. Like, how to call this method in python? (and I noticed required arguments for this method are keys and photo_id, how to get photo_ids based on search input "dog")
Then I followed a tutorial from https://github.com/alexis-mignon/python-flickr-api/wiki/Tutorial but when I imported flickr_api I got error message:
Could not load all modules
<class 'ImportError'> No module named 'objects'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/Agfa/Projects/Image/flickr.py", line 2, in <module>
import flickr_api
File "D:\Application\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\flickr_api\__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
from auth import set_auth_handler
ImportError: cannot import name 'set_auth_handler'
Then I took a look at the _ init _.py:
try:
from objects import *
import objects
import upload as Upload
from upload import upload, replace
except Exception as e:
print "Could not load all modules"
print type(e), e
from auth import set_auth_handler
from method_call import enable_cache, disable_cache
from keys import set_keys
from _version import __version__
Seems like this library does not support python 3 but I don't know what to do. (I cannot install methond_call, keys, _version on my python 3) guess I will use flickrapi
Thank you so much for your time and again thanks in advance.
I think I finally got the proper way to use FlickrAPI:
there are many ways but I figured out 2:
def flickr_walk(keyward):
count = 0
photos = flickr.walk(text=keyward,
tag_mode='all',
tags=keyward,
extras='url_c',
per_page=100)
for photo in photos:
try:
url=photo.get('url_c')
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, path+'\\' + str(count) +".jpg")
except Exception as e:
print('failed to download image')
flickr.walk uses Photos.search API, I can use the API directly as well:
def flickr_search(keyward):
obj = flickr.photos.search(text=keyward,
tags=keyward,
extras='url_c',
per_page=5)
for photo in obj:
url=photo.get('url_c')
photos = ET.dump(obj)
print (photos)
Remember to get the key and secret first:
api_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
api_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
flickr=flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key,api_secret,cache=True)
I dont have any clue on the why/how. If you want to use the flickr_api module with python3.5+, you need to fix the Imports, like I did below:
try:
from objects import *
import objects
import upload as Upload
from upload import upload, replace
except Exception as e:
#print "Could not load all modules"
print( type(e), e)
from .auth import set_auth_handler
from .method_call import enable_cache, disable_cache
from .keys import set_keys
from ._version import __version__
After this edit, it fails with another Import Error on:
>>> import flickr_api
<class 'SyntaxError'> invalid syntax (method_call.py, line 50)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/krysopath/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flickr_api/__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
from .auth import set_auth_handler
File "/home/krysopath/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flickr_api/auth.py", line 43, in <module>
import urlparse
ImportError: No module named 'urlparse'
So you can fix this by yourself, if you want to, by just walking along the Import Errors and adding a dot to convert them into absolute Imports, that dont fail.
I guess, if you want to use this modul you have to fix it first... and have an unknown return. So if you didnt already invested heavily, it might be more effective to use that other module.

how to access Flickr API using Python?

I installed everything as it says on the FlickrAPI homepage but when I try to run:
import flickrapi
api_key = '1a4c975fa83048436a2086bcab7d2290'
api_password = '5e069eae20e60297'
flickrclient = flickrapi.FlickAPI(api_key, api_password)
favourites = flickrClient.favorites_getPublicList(user_id='userid')
photos = flickr.photos_search(user_id='73509078#N00', per_page='10')
sets = flickr.photosets_getList(user_id='73509078#N00')
for photo in favourites.photos[0].photo:
print photo['title']
I get this message from the command prompt:
C:\Users\Desktop>python api.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "api.py", line 4, in <module>
flickrclient = flickrapi.FlickAPI(api_key, api_password)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'FlickAPI'
Any ideas?? I have tried almost everything
FlickAPI is not the same as FlickrAPI. You're missing an r.
The file C:\Users\XXXXXX\Desktop\FLICKR API\flickrapi.py is not part of the flickrapi package. Please rename it, it is masking the real library. Right now it is being imported instead of the installed package.
The flickrapi package itself consists of a directory with a __init__.py file inside of it. Printing flickrapi.__file__ should result in a path ending in flickrapi\__init__.py.
In your "flickrclient = flickrapi.FlickAPI" line, you're missing an 'r' in FlickAPI.
Also, on the next line, your *"user_id='userid'"* argument needs an actual user ID, such as '999999#N99'
Hopefully you found that & got this working a few months ago! :)

renderContents in beautifulsoup (python)

The code I'm trying to get working is:
h = str(heading)
# '<h1>Heading</h1>'
heading.renderContents()
I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
print h.renderContents()
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'renderContents'
Any ideas?
I have a string with html tags and i need to clean it if there is a different way of doing that please suggest it.
Your error message and your code sample don't line up. You say you're calling:
heading.renderContents()
But your error message says you're calling:
print h.renderContents()
Which suggests that perhaps you have a bug in your code, trying to call renderContents() on a string object that doesn't define that method.
In any case, it would help if you checked what type of object heading is to make sure it's really a BeautifulSoup instance. This works for me with BeautifulSoup 3.2.0:
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
heading = BeautifulSoup('<h1>heading</h1>')
repr(heading)
# '<h1>heading</h1>'
print heading.renderContents()
# <h1>heading</h1>
print str(heading)
# '<h1>heading</h1>'
h = str(heading)
print h
# <h1>heading</h1>

python twitter Api() not found error

I'm trying to use the python-twitter module, but still having problems initiating the twitter.Api(). I've checked and rechecked that no other file named twitter.py or twitter.pyc is on my system. On a clean install i first try to
>>> import twitter
and correctly get a response of 'module unknown'
I do a easy_install twitter, successfull.
Then do
>>> import twitter
>>> testapi = twitter.Api()
The response is
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
testapi = twitter.Api()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Api'
>>>
I'm exhausted trying to locate the problem here, please help.
It appears that you are trying to follow the documentation for one Python Twitter module when you are in fact using another Python Twitter module.
The Api() method call you mention is part of this Python Twitter module. However, when you use easy_install twitter, you actually get this other Python Twitter module.

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