download_preprocess_image.py

from urllib import request
from PIL import Image

image_url = "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2029/4253/products/[email protected]"
image_path = f"tmp/{image_url.split('/')[-1]}"
# download image
with request.urlopen(url=image_url, timeout=10) as response:
    data = response.read()
    with open(image_path, 'wb') as f:
        f.write(data)

# convert image to grayscale.
image = Image.open(image_path).convert('L')
# resize the image to 28 28 to make sure it is similar to our dataset
image.thumbnail((28,28))
image = preprocess_image(np.array(image))