Image format on imgur

Question

I'm playing around in python trying to download some images from imgur. I've been using the urrlib and urllib.retrieve but you need to specify the extension when saving the file. This isn't a problem for most posts since the link has for example .jpg in it, but I'm not sure what to do when the extension isn't there. My question is if there is any way to determine the image format of the file before downloading it. The question is mostly imgur specific, but I wouldn't mind a solution for most image-hosting sites.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can use imghdr.what(filename[, h]) in Python 2.7 and Python 3 to determine the image type.

Read here for more info, if you're using Python 2.7.

Read here for more info, if you're using Python 3.