Capture embedded google map image with Python without using a browser

Question

I have noticed that, from Google Maps page, you can get an \"embed\" link to put inside an iframe and load the map in a browser. (no news here)

The image size can be

Answer 1

urllib.urlopen will open a URL, the result will have a .read() method you can use to get the image bytes. cStringIO has a file-like object based on a string in memory. PIL has an Image.open function that opens a file-like thing to give you an image object. Image objects can be asked about their pixel values.