Images from the Web

[MicroMacro]

Is it possible, using something like lua socket or something like that, to get and use images from the web in a love project?
Thanks!

[unek]

Is it possible, using something like lua socket or something like that, to get and use images from the web in a love project?
Thanks!

Yes. You can use luasocket's http.request and love.image.newImageData to do so.

[MicroMacro]

Could you provide an example?

[bartbes]

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local http = require "socket.http"

local logo

function love.load()
	logo = http.request("http://love2d.org/style/logo.png")
	logo = love.filesystem.newFileData(logo, "logo.png")
	logo = love.graphics.newImage(logo)
end

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.draw(logo)
end

Of course you'd probably want to deal with errors, but, if there are none, this code will draw the love logo.