Working with Images, Audio, and other Assets

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Downloading media content on the web
• Parsing a URL with urllib to get the filename
• Determining type of content for a URL
• Determining a file extension from a content type
• Downloading and saving images to the local file system
• Downloading and saving images to S3
• Generating thumbnails for images
• Taking website screenshots with Selenium
• Taking a website screenshot with an external service
• Performing OCR on images with pytessaract
• Creating a Video Thumbnail
• Ripping an MP4 video to an MP3