earth.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests
from lxml import html
import json
import shutil
import cv2
import numpy as np

# where to look for earthview
URL = "https://earthview.withgoogle.com/"

# request the html code to look for the link to the image
r = requests.get(URL)
if r.status_code == 200:
  tree = html.fromstring(r.content)
  body = tree.find("body")
  data_photo = body.attrib.items()[1][1]
  json_acceptable_string = data_photo.replace("'", "\"")
  data_photo = json.loads(json_acceptable_string)
  photoUrl = data_photo["photoUrl"]
  print("Found the image:")
  print(photoUrl)
else:
  print("Could not find the image. Exiting.")
  quit()

# if all went well, we download the image
r = requests.get(photoUrl, stream=True)
if r.status_code == 200:
  img = cv2.imdecode(np.fromstring(r.raw.data, dtype=np.uint8), -1)
  print('Image sucessfully Downloaded.')
  cv2.imshow("Earth", img)
  cv2.waitKey(0)
else:
  print('Image Couldn\'t be retreived')