How do I open an image from the internet in PIL?

Question

I would like to find the dimensions of an image on the internet. I tried using

from PIL import Image
import urllib2 as urllib
fd = urllib.urlopen(\"http://a/         


        

Answer 1

This answer is 4 years ago, but it's still on top in Google.In Python3, we have simple solution.

from urllib.request import urlopen
img =Image.open(urlopen('http://dl.iplaypython.com/images/banner336x280.jpg'))
new_img =img.resize((300,500),Image.ANTIALIAS)
new_img.save('url.jpg','jpeg')