Unfortunately, Azure Notebooks limit access to external data from a few sources. This gateway allows your Azure notebooks to download data (in particular, images) from any place on the internet.
To use it:
- Deploy the project somewhere on Azure (eg. http://az.azurewebsites.net)
- In your notebook, substitute URLs like http://image.net/image.jpg to http://az.azurewebsites.net/api/gateway?q=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.net%2Fimage.jpg
- Enjoy!