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in thread Tk show image from web

Thank you. This was the hint I needed. Here a working script:

Maybe somebody can find some inspiration

use strict; use warnings; use HTTP::Request; use LWP::UserAgent; use JSON::PP; use LWP::Simple; use Tk; use Tk::Photo; use Tk::JPEG; use Tk::PNG; use MIME::Base64; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; my $QueryString="wind park"; my $urlImage=getWikiImage($QueryString); if ($urlImage){ my $data=grabbingImage($urlImage); $data = MIME::Base64::encode_base64($data); #creating GUI my $mw = new MainWindow(); my $top = $mw->Frame()->pack(); my $img = $mw->Photo(-data => $data); my $label = $top->Label(-image => $img)->pack(); MainLoop; } sub getWikiImage{ my $QueryString=shift; print "Querying Wiki for $QueryString\n"; my $imgUrl; my $url="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&title +s=" . $QueryString . "&prop=pageimages&format=json&pithumbsize=200"; my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url); my $res = $ua->request($req); if ($res->is_success) { my $json_text= $res->content; my $decoded_json = decode_json( $json_text ); my @WikiItem = $decoded_json->{'query'}{'pages'}; foreach my $hash_ref (@WikiItem) { foreach (keys %{$hash_ref}) { $imgUrl = ${$hash_ref}{$_}{'thumbnail'}{'source'}; } } } else { print "Error\n"; } print "IMG: $imgUrl \n"; return $imgUrl; } sub grabbingImage{ my $url=shift; print "Grabbing image...\n"; my $request = new HTTP::Request 'GET', $url; my $response = $ua->request($request); if ($response->is_success) { return $response->content; } else { print $response->error_as_HTML; return 'error'; } }

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Re^3: Tk show image from web (inspired app)
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2019 at 23:21 UTC
    Maybe somebody can find some inspiration

    Very cool, thank you!

    #!/usr/bin/perl =head1 DESCRIPTION View random images from the supplied folder (supports . and ~). Every time you close an image a new random image will open, until the program is stopped. Inspired by "Re^2: Tk show image from web" by IB2017 https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=11108799 =cut use strict; use warnings; use autodie; use File::Spec; use MIME::Base64; use Tk; use Tk::Photo; use Tk::JPEG; use Tk::PNG; my $dir = shift || die "Usage: $0 /path/to/images"; die 'Folder not found :-(' unless -d $dir; opendir my $dh, glob $dir; my @img = grep /\.(jpe?g|gif|png|bmp)/i, readdir $dh; closedir $dh; die 'No images found, try again!' unless @img; while () { my $img = $img[rand@img]; my $path = File::Spec->catfile($dir,$img); open my $fh, '<', $path; my $dat = join '', <$fh>; close $fh; $dat = MIME::Base64::encode_base64($dat); print "$path \n"; my $mw = MainWindow->new; my $top = $mw->Frame()->pack(); my $image = $mw->Photo(-data => $dat); my $label = $top->Label(-image => $image)->pack(); MainLoop }
      Dear Monks,

      I like to use this program to surf images in my huge downloads folder, but it has 2 problems:

      The first issue is that memory use grows with each image since it doesn't call the delete method on the $image (as Tk::Image says) but I can't figure out where to call this method without causing a segmentation fault.

      The second issue is that Tk::JPEG fails with "Unsupported JPEG color space" on CMYK images. Do I have to use Image::Info to detect CMYK and Imager to convert to RGB or is there a simpler way?

      Thank you

Re^3: Tk show image from web
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 16, 2019 at 23:42 UTC
    The wikipedia lookup doesn't work for me so I changed 1 line to make it load any image or a default image:
    my $urlImage= getWikiImage($QueryString) || shift || 'https://covers.oreillystatic.com/images/9780596000271/lrg.jpg';