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Loading image URIs of images from web pages via BeautifulSoup

I need to get an image from a website using Python. However, the image is not as a linked file, but as a GIF data URI. How do I download it and save it as a .gif file?

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This should get you moving in the right direction.

First, I will assume that you received the image uri data and is stored in a python variable called img_data:

# Example
img_data = 'data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4A...<lots of data>...k='


Now you will need to decode the image from base64 and save it to a file:

import base64

# Separate the metadata from the image data
head, data = img_data.split(',', 1)

# Get the file extension (gif, jpeg, png)
file_ext = head.split(';')[0].split('/')[1]

# Decode the image data
plain_data = base64.b64decode(data)

# Write the image to a file
with open('image.' + file_ext, 'wb') as f:
    f.write(plain_data)
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