python script to download files from website code example

Example 1: download pdf from url python

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")

Example 2: python download file from web

import requests

url = 'https://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico'
r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)

open('facebook.ico', 'wb').write(r.content)

Example 3: python get an online file

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