naturtag.storage.remote_images module¶

class naturtag.storage.remote_images.ImageFetcher(cache_path=PosixPath('/home/docs/.local/share/Naturtag/images.db'))¶

Bases: object

Fetches and caches remote images (mainly taxon and observation thumbnails)

cache_size()¶

Get the total cache size in bytes, and the number of cached files

get_image(photo, url=None, size=None)¶

Get an image from the cache, if it exists; otherwise, download and cache a new one

get_pixmap(path=None, photo=None, url=None, size=None)¶

Fetch a pixmap from either a local path or remote URL. Must be called from the GUI thread since QPixmap is a paint device.

get_qimage(path=None, photo=None, url=None, size=None)¶

Fetch a QImage from either a local path or remote URL (thread-safe)

naturtag.storage.remote_images.get_url_hash(url)¶

Generate a hash to use as a cache key from an image URL, appended with the file extension