[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there: a bit of a left-field question, I think.
> I'm writing a program that analyses image files downloaded with a basic
> crawler, and it's slow, mainly because I only want to analyse files
> within a certain size range, and I'm having to download all the files
> on the page, open them, get their size, and then only analyse the ones
> that are in that size range.
> Is there a way (in python, of course!) to get the size of images before
> or without downloading them? I've checked around, and I can't seem to
> find anything promising...
>
> Anybody got any clues?
The PIL can determine the size of an image from some "large enough" chunk at
the beginning of the image, e. g:
import Image
import urllib
from StringIO import StringIO
f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.python.org/images/success/nasa.jpg";)
s = StringIO(f.read(512))
print Image.open(s).size
Peter
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