How to set the pygame icon to an online image - python-3.x

Question

So let's say I have a URL that stores an image, let's say it's, "https://www.image.site/img.png"
I want to set the pygame icon to that image without downloading anything on my computer.
I am already familiar with the code to set the icon to a file on your computer
img = pygame.image.load('image')
pygame.display.set_icon(img)
But how can I set it to an online image, would just setting the argument in set_icon to the URL work, or do I have to do something more complicated?

Answer 1

Another way:
Use the requests library to download the image bytes
Use BytesIO to create a file stream in memory
Create a PIL.Image from the byte file stream
Use pygame.image.fromstring to convert the PIL image to a pygame image
Here's the code:
import pygame
from io import BytesIO
import requests
from PIL import Image
# create image from URL
rsp = requests.get('https://www.pygame.org/docs/_static/pygame_tiny.png')
pilimage = Image.open(BytesIO(rsp.content)).convert("RGBA")
pgimg = pygame.image.fromstring(pilimage.tobytes(), pilimage.size, pilimage.mode)
# show image
pygame.init()
display = pygame.display.set_mode((250,150))
display.fill((255,255,255))
display.blit(pgimg,((250 - pgimg.get_rect().width)/2,(150 - pgimg.get_rect().height)/2))
pygame.display.update()
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit(); exit()
Output

Answer 2

I don't know why you'd do that, but I cooked something up for you.
It downloads the data of an image and then loads an image out of that data.
import requests
import io
import pygame
def surf_from_url(url):
data = io.BytesIO()
response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
if not response.ok:
print(response)
for block in response.iter_content(1024):
if not block:
break
data.write(block)
data.seek(0)
return pygame.image.load(data)
#demo
surf = surf_from_url("https://www.pygame.org/images/logo_lofi.png")
surf2 = surf_from_url("https://yt3.ggpht.com/a/AATXAJxybFq6Y8SFOuyvWqldJPcXbCps-gR_Qp2z4jKt=s100-c-k-c0xffffffff-no-rj-mo")
screen = pygame.display.set_mode([300,300])
pygame.display.set_icon(surf)
screen.fill((255,255,255))
screen.blit(surf, (0,0))
screen.blit(surf2, (20,100))
pygame.display.flip()