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17 changes: 17 additions & 0 deletions web_programming/instagram_pic.py
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from datetime import datetime

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

if __name__ == "__main__":
url = input("Enter image url: ").strip()
print(f"Downloading image from {url} ...")
soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).content, "html.parser")
# The image URL is in the content field
# of the first meta tag with the property og:image
image_url = soup.find("meta", {"property": "og:image"})["content"]
image_data = requests.get(image_url).content
file_name = f"{datetime.now():%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S}.jpg"
with open(file_name, "wb") as fp:
fp.write(image_data)
print(f"Done. Image saved to disk as {file_name}.")