from datetime import datetime
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def download_image(url: str) -> str:
"""
Download an image from a given URL by scraping the 'og:image' meta tag.
Parameters:
url: The URL to scrape.
Returns:
A message indicating the result of the operation.
"""
try:
response = requests.get(url)
response.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
return f"An error occurred during the HTTP request to {url}: {e!r}"
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
image_meta_tag = soup.find("meta", {"property": "og:image"})
if not image_meta_tag:
return "No meta tag with property 'og:image' was found."
image_url = image_meta_tag.get("content")
if not image_url:
return f"Image URL not found in meta tag {image_meta_tag}."
try:
image_data = requests.get(image_url).content
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
return f"An error occurred during the HTTP request to {image_url}: {e!r}"
if not image_data:
return f"Failed to download the image from {image_url}."
file_name = f"{datetime.now():%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S}.jpg"
with open(file_name, "wb") as out_file:
out_file.write(image_data)
return f"Image downloaded and saved in the file {file_name}"
if __name__ == "__main__":
url = input("Enter image URL: ").strip() or "https://www.instagram.com"
print(f"download_image({url}): {download_image(url)}")