Read an image from an Internet URL in Python3 cv2

By this piece of code we can read image from URL in opencv python3.

Make sure you have installed opencv in system.

pip install opencv-python

import cv2
import urllib.request
import numpy as np

req = urllib.request.urlopen('https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/doctor-strange.jpg?w=681&h=383&crop=1&resize=681%2C383')
arr = np.asarray(bytearray(req.read()), dtype=np.uint8)
img = cv2.imdecode(arr, -1) # 'Load it as it is'

cv2.imshow('random_title', img)
if cv2.waitKey() & 0xff == 27: quit()