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Storing output of URL directly into numpy raster

Is there a way to store the output of a url that returns a geotiff (or tiff file) directly into a numpy array or rasterio variable using the python requests library (or any other python library)? I can use python requests for a json like this:

requests.get(URL).json()
Solution 
  • requests.get(URL).content

    gives you the binary data from your file which you may be able to convert using the numpy.frombuffer function. But if I remember correctly, the geotiff format has some header information which you would have to offset for.

    Alternatively, you could save the file to disc

    open('myfile.tiff','wb').write(requests.get(URL).content)

    and then read it using something like the scipy.ndimage.imread function.