def get_url_of_image(query_string): '''gets an image from a yahoo image search of "query string", returns a url''' srch = ImageSearch(app_id="YahooDemo", query='%s'%query_string) srch.results = 1 for each in srch.parse_results(): url = str(each.Url) return url
def _run_query_fired(self):
""" Queries Yahoo! image search for with the query string """
# This is where we run the actual query once the user tells the GUI to
# do so. We're using the pYsearch module to do a Yahoo image search,
# which basically exposes a list of image urls.
srch = ImageSearch(app_id="YahooDemo", query=self.query_string)
# Run the search and return the top 10 results
srch.results = 10
# We make a list of the top 10 image urls.
imagrul_list = []
for res in srch.parse_results():
imagrul_list.append(res.Url)
# We will try each image url in succession to download the image. We
# need to do this in a complicated control loop because not all image
# urls returned from the search still work. We need to try/except
# the urllib2 connection errors and check that the image url linked to
# a valid image we can download. If not, move on to the next url. If
# no image urls were returned in the search (for example, if the search
# was too specific and returned no results), print an explanation
# in the GUI by writing it into the image_url string.
final_imgurl = False
for imgurl in imagrul_list:
print "Connecting to", imgurl
error_encountered = False
try:
response = urllib2.urlopen(imgurl)
except:
error_encountered = True
print "Oh no, HTTP error encountered on " + imgurl
if not error_encountered:
final_imgurl = imgurl
break
if final_imgurl:
print "Successfully accessed", final_imgurl
self.image_url = final_imgurl
image_string = response.read()
response.close()
image_file = file("image.jpg", "w")
image_file.write(image_string)
image_file.close()
image_file = file("image_original.jpg", "w")
image_file.write(image_string)
image_file.close()
self.display_image()
print "Retrieved image and saved it as image.jpg"
else:
print ("Failed to retrieve any image, no " +
"results found.")
self.image_url = ("Failed to retrieve any image, " +
"no results found.")
def getImage(q) :
srch = ImageSearch(app_id="YahooDemo",query=q)
# get one result in png format
srch.results = 1
srch.format = "png"
for res in srch.parse_results():
# the file-like object returned by
# urllib doesn't implement some of the methods needed by imread. i
# tried to read() the urllib object and convert that to a string
# stream, but imread didn't like that, either. i knew creating
# a file and reading it would work, so i did it.
commands.getoutput("wget '"+res.Url+"' -O tmpfile")
x = plt.imread("tmpfile")
commands.getoutput("rm tmpfile")
# images get reversed for some reason, reverse it back
x = x[::-1]
return (x, res.Url)
def getimage(self,query):
"""
Uses the yahoo module to run a Yahoo image search. It reads the
linked image as a hex string. Then it saves it into a temporary file
and reads it back using Image.open. It then displays the image.
"""
srch = ImageSearch(app_id="YahooDemo", query=self.query,results=1)
for a in srch.parse_results():
url = a.Url
imstring = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
output = open('temp.jpg','wb')
output.write(imstring)
output.close()
self.url = url
self.im = Image.open('temp.jpg')
self.im = self.im.rotate(180)
self.display()