I want to extract an embedded image from a Gmail email

Hi ​@RobbyG 

Options for email parsing:

Thank you! I’ll give these a try.

If you sent the email html to a code block you’ll be able to grab the img src/href which you can the send on. I’m uncertain if you can download the actual image though.

I would use something like this:

 

import re

# Example input data
input_data = {
    "html": """
        <p>Here is an image:</p>
        <img alt="Example Image" src="https://example.com/image1.jpg">
        <p>Another image:</p>
        <img src="https://example.com/image2.png" alt="Second Image">
    """
}

# Regex pattern to handle flexible attribute order and spacing
pattern = r'<img[^>]*alt=["\']([^"\']*)["\'][^>]*src=["\']([^"\']+)["\']|<img[^>]*src=["\']([^"\']+)["\'][^>]*alt=["\']([^"\']*)["\']'

# Find all matches in the HTML input
matches = re.findall(pattern, input_data["html"])

# Process matches to handle flexible groups
key_value_pairs = {}
for match in matches:
    # Each match is a tuple of up to 4 elements due to the alternate regex groups
    alt = match[0] or match[3]  # First group's alt or second group's alt
    src = match[1] or match[2]  # First group's src or second group's src
    key_value_pairs[alt.strip()] = src.strip()

# Output the key-value pairs
output = key_value_pairs

Hope it’s useful​​​

Hi there, ​@RobbyG! 

How did you get on with Troy and ​Badger’s suggestions here? 

If you're having any trouble extracting the image we’d be happy to assist further. Want to make sure you’re all set so would love to hear how things are going! 🙂