Requests.get() does not seem to be returning the expected bytes for wikipedia image urls such as this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/20100726_Kalamitsi_Beach_Ionian_Sea_Lefkada_island_Greece.jpg:
import wikipedia
import requests
page = wikipedia.page("beach")
first_image_link = page.images[0]
req = requests.get(first_image_link)
req.content
b'<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n<meta charset="utf-8">\n<title>Wikimedia Error</title>\n<style>\n*...
Most websites block requests that come in without a valid browser as a User-Agent. Wikimedia is one such.
import requests
headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'}
res = requests.get('https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/20100726_Kalamitsi_Beach_Ionian_Sea_Lefkada_island_Greece.jpg', headers=headers)
res.content
which will give you expected output
I typed ur code and it seems an " Error: 403, Forbidden. ". So what I can help with is Wikipedia requires a user agent header in the request.
import wikipedia
import requests
headers = {
'User-Agent': 'My User Agent 1.0'
}
page = wikipedia.page("beach")
first_image_link = page.images[0]
req = requests.get(first_image_link, headers=headers, stream=True)
req.content
For the user agent, you should probably supply something a bit more descriptive than the placeholder I use in my example. Maybe the name of your script, or just the word "script" or something like that. I myself tested it and it works fine, you will get back the image as you are expecting.