How to open an image from the URL in PIL?

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

# importing modules
import urllib.request
from PIL import Image

urllib.request.urlretrieve(
  'https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20210318103632/gfg-300x300.png',
   "gfg.png")

img = Image.open("gfg.png")
img.show()

Output: