Python script download file

Asked 3 years, 8 months ago. Active 3 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 9k times. Improve this question. You can look into the source code for that web page, then find out what to do for 'Export Excel' button; normally it will trigger an ajax request to one url.

You don't need to care the html content. I really have no idea what im looking at though. I'm trying to learn though lol — user Actually, I found out how that button works. But I don't think it is a good idea to post it out. The owner of that website may kick my ass Writing code in comment? Please use ide. Load Comments. What's New. Most popular in GBlog. Most visited in Python. We use cookies to ensure you have the best browsing experience on our website. Start Your Coding Journey Now!

I took three different MB files to test with different files- to eliminate the chance that there is some caching going on under the hood. Tested on debian machine, with python2. This may be a little late, But I saw pabloG's code and couldn't help adding a os. Check it out :. If running in an environment other than Windows, you will have to use something other then 'cls'. I have fetched data for couple sites, including text and images, the above two probably solve most of the tasks.

As it is included in Python 3 standard library, your code could run on any machine that run Python 3 without pre-installing site-package.

I have tried only requests and urllib modules, the other module may provide something better, but this is the one I used to solve most of the problems. Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site the association bonus does not count.

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The current Python scripting release supports Unicode characters and spaces in the installation path. The urlopen method of the urllib2 module returns an object that contains file data. To read the contents of. Note that in Python 3, urllib2 was merged in to urllib as urllib. Therefore, this script works only in Python 2. The open method accepts two parameters, the path to the local file and the mode in which data will be written. Here "wb" states that the open method should have permission to write binary data to the given file.

Execute the above script and go to your "Downloads" directory. You should see the downloaded pdf document as "cat2. You can also download files using requests module. This will be give the filename in some cases correctly.

However, there are times when the filename information is not present in the url. In that case, the Content-Disposition header will contain the filename information. Here is how to fetch it. The url-parsing code in conjuction with the above method to get filename from Content-Disposition header will work for most of the cases.

Use them and test the results. These are my 2 cents on downloading files using requests in Python. Let me know of other tricks I might have overlooked. This article was first posted on my personal blog.