PYTHON : Saving multiple images into folder using requests - python-requests

Question

I need to save all 6 images into a local folder.
The script I found re-writes a single files multiple times and end up producing only 1 image
import requests
img_list = ["https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1tT70vhuTBuNkHFNRq6A9qpXa3.jpg", "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB12HGkvwKTBuNkSne1q6yJoXXaR.jpg", "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1_yDic56guuRjy0Fmq6y0DXXaY.jpg", "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1RopgXffsK1RjSszgq6yXzpXa5.jpg", "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1R6sJXgHqK1RjSZFkq6x.WFXaF.jpg", "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1_XlhXojrK1RkHFNRq6ySvpXaR.jpg"]
for x in blob:
with open('/Users/reezalaq/PycharmProjects/wholesale/img/pic1.jpg', 'wb') as handle:
response = requests.get(x, stream=True)
if not response.ok:
print(response)
for block in response.iter_content(1024):
if not block:
break
handle.write(block)```
It needs to save all 6 images separately. No error message so far.

Answer 1

The script rewrites the same file each time because you're using the same file name, it never changes.
The problem is here:
with open('/Users/reezalaq/PycharmProjects/wholesale/img/pic1.jpg', 'wb')
The first argument of the open() method is the file path. The second argument is the mode, which you have set to wb, or write/binary. So in you're loop you are rewriting the file contents of pic1.jpg everytime. (See: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/functions.html#open).
You can pre-define a list of filenames in a list and use those as the filenames or do something more dynamic like :
for img in img_list:
file_name = img.split('/')[-1]
with open(file_name, 'wb') as handle:
....
This would grab the file name of the image from the website you're downloading it from (e.g., 1HTB1tT70vhuTBuNkHFNRq6A9qpXa3.jpg for the first URL) to be used as the file name on your system. (Note: this also assumes names will be unique).
Edit:
You can define your folder path before the for-loop. Then, you can change the open() method to include that path. So:
import os # do this at the top of your file
folder_path = '/Users/reezalaq/PycharmProjects/wholesale/img/'
for img in img_list:
with open(os.path.join(folder_path, file_name), 'wb') as handle:
....