How to open an image from the URL in PIL?
Last Updated :
26 Mar, 2021
In this article, we will learn How to open an image from the URL using the PIL module in python. For the opening of the image from a URL in Python, we need two Packages urllib and Pillow(PIL).
Approach:
- Install the required libraries and then import them. To install use the following commands:
pip install pillow
- Copy the URL of any image.
- Write URL with file name in urllib.request.urlretrieve() method.
- Use Image.open() method to open image.
- At last show the image using obj.show() method.
Sample Code:
import urllib.request
from PIL import Image
urllib.request.urlretrieve(‘Image url’, “file_name”)
img = Image.open(“file_name”)
img.show()
Example:
Python3
import urllib.request
from PIL import Image
urllib.request.urlretrieve(
"gfg.png" )
img = Image. open ( "gfg.png" )
img.show()
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Output:
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