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Perl: how to save an image from a URL?

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  • 15-04-2007 4:30pm
    #1
    Mr. Flibble
    Registered Users Posts: 2,364 ✭✭✭


    Can someone tell me how I can download and save an image using a perl script if I have the URL of the image?

    Does the Mechanize library allow this, or will it only save information about the image?

    Cheers


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    #2
    Mr. Flibble
    Registered Users Posts: 2,364 ✭✭✭Mr. Flibble


    I got it 
    use LWP::Simple;

my $picture_binary = get "http://domain.com/logo.gif";

open (SAVE, "./local_copy.gif");
binmode SAVE;
print SAVE $picture_binary;
close (SAVE);


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    #3
    Mr. Flibble
    Registered Users Posts: 2,364 ✭✭✭Mr. Flibble


    Actually I haven't got it.

    This code seems to only work on images which are hosted on the same server which the script is running from. When I try it on other images it saves an image of the URL for the image which seems very odd. Anyone know what is going on here?


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