# Adding Image() to a Report programatically

**URL:** <https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266>\
**Category:** W&B Help\
**Created:** [October 17, 2022, 6:03am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266 "2022-10-17T06:03:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 15\
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**Author:** ![kevinashaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/kevinashaw/32/1016_2.png) [@kevinashaw](https://community.wandb.ai/u/kevinashaw)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 6:03am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/1 "2022-10-17T06:03:20Z")

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Hello,  
I am experimenting with programmatic report generation using Python.  
I understand that reports are a beta feature.  
I would like to add an Image object to a report. The image was generated in MatPlotLib and rendered using PIL. I’ve read the documentation but there is little if any mention of how to handle `Image` objects, other than a brief mention that they are supported.

I am getting the following error:

```auto
TypeError: url object must be of type (<class 'str'>,) (got <class 'PIL.PngImagePlugin.PngImageFile'>)

```

The generating code for the report looks like:

```auto
blocks = []
blocks += [wr.MarkdownBlock(text="Markdown cell with *italics* and **bold** and $e=mc^2$")]
for result in results:
    if result:
        blocks += wr.PanelGrid(panels=[wr.Image(result['image'], caption=f"Subject={result['subject']}")])
report.blocks = blocks
report.save()
```

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**Author:** ![thanos-wandb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@thanos-wandb](https://community.wandb.ai/u/thanos-wandb)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/2 "2022-10-17T13:53:30Z")

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Hi @kevinashaw thanks for writing in, and glad to hear you are trying the Reports API. Currently, the Image object can’t be inside the PanelGrid. Could you please try the following code snippet and let me know if that worked for you?

```auto
blocks = []
blocks += [wr.MarkdownBlock(text="Markdown cell with *italics* and **bold** and $e=mc^2$")]
for result in results:
    if result:
        blocks += [wr.Image(result['image'], caption=f"Subject={result['subject']}")]
report.blocks = blocks
report.save()

```

Please also have a look at [this Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Fepp-JLFvK-wLL2BZ_BnkCG_fAC6HFbo#scrollTo=An_example_with_all_of_the_blocks_and_panels) which you may find useful to find the currently supported features. The Python SDK view of our r[eference docs here](https://docs.wandb.ai/guides/reports/edit-a-report#add-plots) may help as well.

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**Author:** ![kevinashaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/kevinashaw/32/1016_2.png) [@kevinashaw](https://community.wandb.ai/u/kevinashaw)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/3 "2022-10-17T20:00:12Z")

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Hi thanos-wandb,  
That makes perfect sense. I should have seen that.  
I will implement it!  
Thanks!  
-K

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**Author:** ![kevinashaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/kevinashaw/32/1016_2.png) [@kevinashaw](https://community.wandb.ai/u/kevinashaw)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/4 "2022-10-18T03:37:41Z")

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@thanos-wandb  
I’m getting the following error:

```auto
AttributeError: read

```

Here is the basic code:

```auto
import wandb.apis.reports as wr
from PIL import Image
buf = io.BytesIO()
plt.gcf().set_size_inches(PLOT_PICTURE_WIDTH, PLOT_PICTURE_HEIGHT)
plt.savefig(buf, format='png', dpi=PLOT_DPI)
blocks += [wr.Image(Image.open(buf))]
```

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**Author:** ![thanos-wandb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@thanos-wandb](https://community.wandb.ai/u/thanos-wandb)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/5 "2022-10-19T09:54:18Z")

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Hi @kevinashaw the wr.Image doesn’t support the `PIL.PngImagePlugin.PngImageFile` type that you pass as input. If you change this argument to a `PNG` image it will work.

For instance you may try the following:  
`blocks += [wr.Image(url="https://assets.website-files.com/5ac6b7f2924c656f2b13a88c/5ecb633d54bd2fe1e0378852_logo%20white.png", caption="W&B logo")]`

I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any further questions.

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**Author:** ![kevinashaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/kevinashaw/32/1016_2.png) [@kevinashaw](https://community.wandb.ai/u/kevinashaw)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/6 "2022-10-19T15:52:10Z")

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Hi @thanos-wandb ,  
Thank you for the help.  
I will note that the above command parallels how I write to `wandb.log()`. I avoid file-system writes and instead write to an in-memory file buffer and then hand `PIL.Image.open()` to the log method, since this saves time and avoids file-system hassles. Its much faster and I have a lot of images that I need to upload.  
And It would be very helpful in the different parts of WandB worked in similar ways.  
It would also be very helpful if there was documentation for this particular option. The ability to add images is mentioned, but there is no example or explanation.  
And yes, I understand that this is a beta feature. Its just a really important feature for us!  
Thank you for your help!  
Kevin

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**Author:** ![thanos-wandb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@thanos-wandb](https://community.wandb.ai/u/thanos-wandb)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/7 "2022-10-24T12:47:45Z")

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Hi @kevinashaw thanks for the additional context! That’s indeed more efficient way and there is a workaround that could help you do this. It required though to first log these images in a dummy run. Please see below a code snippet:

```auto
wandb.init(entity=ENTITY, project=PROJECT)
buf = io.BytesIO()
plt.gcf().set_size_inches(PLOT_PICTURE_WIDTH, PLOT_PICTURE_HEIGHT)
plt.savefig(buf, format='png', dpi=PLOT_DPI)
example = wandb.Image(Image.open(buf))
wandb.log({"example": example})
wandb.finish()

report = wb.Report(
    project=PROJECT,
    title="Report Adding Images from runs media files",
    blocks=[wb.PanelGrid(panels=[wb.MediaBrowser(media_keys="example")])]
)
report.save()

```

Please let me know if there are any issues or further questions about this.

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**Author:** ![thanos-wandb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@thanos-wandb](https://community.wandb.ai/u/thanos-wandb)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/8 "2022-10-27T14:59:14Z")

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Hi @kevinashaw just checking in to see if the above code did the trick for you? thanks!

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**Author:** ![thanos-wandb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@thanos-wandb](https://community.wandb.ai/u/thanos-wandb)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/9 "2022-11-01T16:09:13Z")

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Hi @kevinashaw since we haven’t heard back from you, I will close this ticket for now. If you still experience issues with this, please let us know to re-open the ticket and keep investigating.

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**Author:** ![kevinashaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/kevinashaw/32/1016_2.png) [@kevinashaw](https://community.wandb.ai/u/kevinashaw)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 9:04am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/10 "2022-11-10T09:04:17Z")

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Hi Thanos,  
Thank you for the help.  
I implemented the code as you described:

1. First log the image as a normal PNG bitmap.
2. Connect the already existing image to the report using the `wr.MediaBrowser()` operation.

Unfortunately, this does not actually display the image, but instead shows a browser panel.  
Since this is a Report that needs to be exportable to a PDF document, the browser is not very useful.  
Instead I need to be able to display the image itself, as one might in a typical PDF report.  
See example below of the actual “images” in the report. Do you have any recommendations?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/2X/c/c77857e7988a76fa160c111462d0dcbade450b9a.png)

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**Author:** ![kevinashaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/kevinashaw/32/1016_2.png) [@kevinashaw](https://community.wandb.ai/u/kevinashaw)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/11 "2022-11-16T16:23:15Z")

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@thanos-wandb Will you be able to reply to this? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![thanos-wandb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@thanos-wandb](https://community.wandb.ai/u/thanos-wandb)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/12 "2022-11-16T20:42:36Z")

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Hi @kevinashaw apologies for the late response here. Since you logged the image, these images should be available in your Run/Files/media/image\_key/ folder from the UI? If you click in one image there that would give a URL which you could use for the previous approach:  
`wr.Image(url="https://wandb.ai/ENTITY/PROJECT/runs/RUN-ID/files/media/IMAGE_KEY/NAME.png", caption="Example")`  
Can you please try this for one image and see if it works for you and displayed in report as needed? I could then provide you with a code snippet to get all the file names under the media folder.

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**Author:** ![kevinashaw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/kevinashaw/32/1016_2.png) [@kevinashaw](https://community.wandb.ai/u/kevinashaw)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/13 "2022-12-04T20:32:11Z")

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Hi Thanos,  
Yes, any help would be appreciated. I really need to complete this project.  
Here is an example URL for an image: (URL sent by email)  
There must be a simpler way to populate images in reports. The whole point of programmatically generating reports is to be able to insert objects, charts, text and graphs into it. Is there a plan to provide the ability to post images directly?  
Thanks,  
Kevin

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**Author:** ![thanos-wandb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@thanos-wandb](https://community.wandb.ai/u/thanos-wandb)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/14 "2022-12-18T20:22:53Z")

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Hi @kevinashaw I had followed up with you by email, but also posting here a snippet that may help you get the images logged in a run using the API, and then use these to programmatically populate a report:

```auto
import wandb
import wandb.apis.reports as wr
api = wandb.Api()
run = api.run('ENTITY/PROJECT/run-id')

urls=[]
for f in run.files(per_page=1000):
    if f.name.endswith('png'):
        print(f.name, f.url)
        urls.append(f.url)

wandb.require("report-editing")
report = wr.Report(project='report-api-images', title='Report of media/images')
report.blocks = [
wr.Image(im_url, caption='Image') for im_url in urls
]
report.save()

```

I hope this helps, and please let me know if you have any further questions.

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**Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/adding-image-to-a-report-programatically/3266/15 "2023-02-16T20:23:09Z")

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