How to fix "OSError: cannot identify image file"? I am trying to get image size by passing the image url

Asked Sep 04 '19 at 13:15

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I am passing url of an image to get its size (height and width) but it seems python is not able to fetch this url. I am using python 3.5

The actual code is:-

from urllib.request import urlopen
from PIL import Image

url = 'https://zdnet3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/12/01/f7247ce5-7921-11e4-b569-d4ae52e95e57/thumbnail/70x53/a5599f31ffa560131f54bcf8442e80ba/zd-defaultimage-news.jpg'
img = Image.open(urlopen(url))

print("Image size:", img.size)

I got this error:

"OSError: cannot identify image file <_io.BytesIO object at 0x000002907E898308>"

edited Sep 04 '19 at 13:29

Al Foиce ѫ

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asked Sep 04 '19 at 13:15

CHANDAN GUPTA

The file you link to is compressed with `gzip`. – Mark Setchell Sep 04 '19 at 16:33
@MarkSetchell: Great find! How did you figure this out? – physicalattraction Sep 05 '19 at 19:12
I downloaded the file, saved it as `a.jpg` and then ran `file a.jpg` and it said *"gzipped data"*. – Mark Setchell Sep 06 '19 at 12:36

How to fix "OSError: cannot identify image file"? I am trying to get image size by passing the image url

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