Download images from urls

[vinayak-mehta]

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[mrbasel]

Hello, can I take over this one?

[vinayak-mehta]

Yes!

The idea I had for this was to (1) show the user a download progress of each image as its being downloaded (if the image is specified as a url in markdown), and (2) save the images in an images folder in the current directory. (3) The images folder acts like a cache so that the same images aren't download the next time present is invoked, unless the url / image alt has changed.

[mrbasel]

Hi @vinayak-mehta,

Do you mind if I use an external library for the progress bar? Also should I create a helpers.py file to store image downloader function in?

[vinayak-mehta]

An external library should be good. Which one are you planning to use?

[vinayak-mehta]

You could also just use click's progress bar utility.

[mrbasel]

Oh yeah, I think I will use click.