how can generate a image URL from image?

I am working on a face recognition API that accept only image URL .

I want to generate a image URL from image of my local computer in python .Any solution to generate the image URL in python ? so I can pass the image URL in to API (that only take image URL).

Here is my code :

import requests

# put your keys in the header
headers = {
    "app_id": "4353454",
    "app_key": "5474565rfedgry564353tgtr"
}

#here I want to convert the image to image URL so I can easily pass it as a 
argument into API

payload = '{"image":"image_URL"}'

url = "url_of_API"

r = requests.post(url, data= payload, headers=headers)
print(r.content)

Any solution will highly appreciated .

Answer

If you want to send the URLs to external APIs, your images need to be hosted somewhere. If your machine is communicating locally, you can simply run

python -m http.server 

in your images folder. Then you will get URLs like

127.0.0.1:8000/myImg.png

To access this on another machine in same network, the url would be:

IPv4ofMachine:8000/myImg.png

You can get IPv4 of the host machine by running “ipconfig” in your CMD.

Now, if you want to communicate with external host/ API Services which is asking for image URL, you have to host those image somewhere. I would suggest AWS S3 buckets. It is really easy and free to use. By uploading it there, you will get a clear URL of your images which further can be used on web.