IOError: cannot identify image file <cStringIO.StringI object at 0x0000000005796E00>

i got this problem when i use the ImagesPipeline to download some image（but some image can be download）…such as this image url:

http://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_png/NmpHEAE5bXl1WYvWBOQBhDeB7Dar8JhIr4tHxouT9AbhZJO7wF1lv2bCUU1UX0YPtU70OUF7RRfnMQpubRJYpA/0?wx_fmt=png

this image can`t be download.

i think it is because the image type is JFIF，and the ImagesPipeline is not support . i dont know how to Solve this problem, please help me

[cathalgarvey]

Hi folks, this is marked as “not reproducible”, and it’s a bit stale, so I’m inclined to close it. However, if anyone finds a clearly reproducible example, please come back to us and discuss/reopen.

Something quick to consider: If you want images and you don’t need them resized/converted/thumbnailed, you can use the filespipeline to download them also. In fact, it should be faster and more efficient. This should be your first recourse if PIL/low - unsupported images become a problem.

Finally @ZhouYangL - I haven’t attempted to replicate your shell session, especially as it uses an image that looks prone to changing, and it’s been a few months. But I suspect your issue likes in the statement browser.page_source.encode('utf-8'), which is being called on what seems to be binary image content. I am guessing that you are using Python 2, because this kind of transform would be very unlikely to occur in Python 3? I suggest that the page contents are probably correct image binary as-is, and should not be encoded into a text-encoding such as UTF8.

Thanks everyone!

[ZhouYangL]

I got the @redapple , @mr-huangyang , @MaGuiSen , @dydjiangtao , @gasbakid please help me. I used scrapy shell url , it not question url='https://img.alicdn.com/bao/uploaded/i2/133560252265971710/TB2ZRMHsFXXXXXZXFXXXXXXXXXX_!!0-rate.jpg' from PIL import Image from cStringIO import StringIO as BytesIO
orig_image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.body))

but when I use selenuim and scrapy , I get the same question: from selenium.webdriver import Chrome from scrapy.http import HtmlResponse browser = Chrome() browser.get('https://img.alicdn.com/bao/uploaded/i2/133560252265971710/TB2ZRMHsFXXXXXZXFXXXXXXXXXX_!!0-rate.jpg') r=HtmlResponse('https://img.alicdn.com/bao/uploaded/i2/133560252265971710/TB2ZRMHsFXXXXXZXFXXXXXXXXXX_!!0-rate.jpg', body=browser.page_source.encode('utf-8'), encoding='utf-8') orig_image = Image.open(BytesIO(r.body))

then it have debugs orig_image = Image.open(BytesIO(r.body))

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.pyc in open(fp, mode) 2570 fp.close() 2571 raise IOError("cannot identify image file %r" -> 2572 % (filename if filename else fp)) 2573 2574 #

IOError: cannot identify image file <cStringIO.StringI object at 0x102d0ef10>