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Asked: April 17, 20222022-04-17T19:10:56+00:00 2022-04-17T19:10:56+00:00In: python

How To Automate Downloading A File From A Website Using Python?

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Excuse me, is it possible to Automate Downloading A File From A Website Using Python or not? If yes please show me how to do it. Many thanks!

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Ideas for “How To Automate Downloading A File From A Website Using Python”: You can automate downloading a file from a website using Python when using the urllib2 library. In order to do so, create an instance of urllib2.Request and call urlopen with a url, then finally import json in your code to parse out the file’s contents.
Here is Syntax:

import urllib.request
pdf_path = ""
def download_file(download_url, filename):
response = urllib.request.urlopen(download_url)
file = open(filename + ".pdf", 'wb')
file.write(response.read())
file.close()

download_file(pdf_path, "Test")

As you know, The URLlib library is a typical library in Python therefore you don’t need to install it.

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    Lucas Robin
    2022-04-17T19:10:58+00:00Added an answer on April 17, 2022 at 7:10 pm

    If anyone do not want to look for a perfect solution so you can also use following way

    import urllib.request
    pdf_path = ""
    def download_file(download_url, filename):
        response = urllib.request.urlopen(download_url)    
        file = open(filename + ".pdf", 'wb')
        file.write(response.read())
        file.close()
     
    download_file(pdf_path, "Test")
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  2. Léa Michaud
    2022-04-17T19:11:00+00:00Added an answer on April 17, 2022 at 7:11 pm

    Have you ever tried this solution

    import urllib2  # the lib that handles the url stuff
    ​
    data = urllib2.urlopen(target_url) # it's a file like object and works just like a file
    for line in data: # files are iterable
        print line
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