All,
My python program signs onto the student facebook at my school and,
given email addresses, returns the associated full name. If I were to
do this through a regular browser, there is also a picture of the
individual, and I am trying to get my program to download the picture
as well. The problem: the html code of the page does not point to a
particular file, but rather refers to (what seems like) a query.
So, if one went to the facebook and searched for me using my school
net id (msb83), the image of my profile on the results page is:
<img width="100" height="130" border="0" class="border" alt="msb83"
src="deliverImage.cfm?netid=MSB83">
Using BeautifulSoup, mechanize, and urllib, I've constructed the
following:
br.open("http://www.school.edu/students/facebook/";)
br.select_form(nr = 1)
br.form['fulltextsearch'] = 'msb83' # this searches the facebook for
me
br.submit()
results = br.response().read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(results)
foo2 = soup.find('td', attrs={'width':'95'})
foo3 = foo2.find('a')
foo4 = foo3.find('img', attrs={'src':'deliverImage.cfm?netid=msb83'})
# this just drills down to the <img> line and until this point the
program does not return an error
save_as = os.path.join('./', msb83 + '.jpg')
urllib.urlretrieve(foo4, save_as)
I get the following error msg after running this code:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'
I can download the picture through my browser by right-clicking,
selecting save as, and then the image gets saved as
'deliverImage.cfm.jpeg.'
Are there any suggestions as to how I might be able to download the
image using python?
Please let me know if more information is needed -- happy to supply
it.
Matt
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