Unable To Save Image From Web Using Urllib2

I want to save some images from a website using python urllib2 but when I run the code it saves something else. This is my code: user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Wi

Solution 1:

The site is returning a standard image back to you because you are scraping the site. Use the same 'trick' of setting the headers when retrieving the image:

imgRequest = urllib2.Request(imgUrl, headers=headers)
imgData = urllib2.urlopen(imgRequest).read()