Python to convert data to a png file

Question

We have an intranet/knowledge base site that has an API. I can use that API to pull assets from the backend. That worked as expected... except... I'm not sure what format the return is in. The file is a png file, and it has the png chunks listed like IHDR but can I just convert this (see below) to base64 and push it through PIL or some other renderer to get it to output (I am on a Mac)? Thanks.

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Answer 1

Updated Answer

Actually, if you just want to save it to disk, without decompressing it into a PIL Image, there is no need for PIL, you can just do:

with open('result.png', 'wb') as fd:
    fd.write(YOUR_API_VALUE)

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Original Answer

To save the image as a PNG, or potentially a JPEG/TIFF/GIF:

from io import BytesIO
from PIL import Image

im = Image.open(BytesIO(YOUR_API_VALUE))
im.save('image.png')

and vary the extension according to the format you want.

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To view the image:

from io import BytesIO
from PIL import Image

im = Image.open(BytesIO(YOUR_API_VALUE))
im.show()