source = StringIO.StringIO(requests.get(link).content)) data = code example

Example 1: save image requests python

import requests

url = 'http://google.com/favicon.ico'
r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
open('google.ico', 'wb').write(r.content)

Example 2: get image image memeory size in url inpyton requests

import urllib.request, io
url = 'http://www.elsecarrailway.co.uk/images/Events/TeddyBear-3.jpg'
path = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
meta = path.info()

>>>meta.get(name="Content-Length")
'269898' # ie  269kb