[reportlab-users] Insert image from url

[Graeme Hawker]

Thanks - this works perfectly!

I have also tried this on the dynamically generated images and it works
there too.

Cheers

Graeme


> Hi,

>

> This does not work because the object returned by urlopen lacks a seek

> method.

> Use a StringIO object instead:

>

> from StringIO import StringIO

> data =

> urllib2.urlopen('http://images.google.co.uk/intl/en_ALL/images/images_hp.gif').read()

> logo = Image(StringIO(data))

> story.append(logo)

>

> I have not tested this, but it should work.

>

> --

> Jonas

>

> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Graeme Hawker <graeme at lutralutra.co.uk>

> wrote:

>> Hi there!

>>

>> I am trying to insert an image from a url into a pdf. In practice, this

>> will be a dynamically generated chart (I'm using PHP's jpgraph as this

>> has

>> scatterplot and windrose functionality), but I'm just trying to test it

>> on

>> a flat image file (in this case a google icon).

>>

>> I try:

>>

>> logo =

>> Image(urllib2.urlopen('http://images.google.co.uk/intl/en_ALL/images/images_hp.gif'))

>> story.append(logo)

>>

>> But I get the error:

>>

>> addinfourl instance has no attribute 'seek' fileName=<addinfourl at

>> 13242120 whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0x01CA31F0>>

>>

>> I've read somewhere a mention of passing the url contents via a StringIO

>> object, but am unsure the details of how to do this. Can anyone assist?

>>

>> Thanks

>>

>> Graeme

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