Python download file and save

Learn more. Basic http file downloading and saving to disk in python? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 1 month ago. Active 29 days ago. Viewed k times. I'm not sure how to use shutil and os modules, either. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. URLopener testfile. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Blue Ice Blue Ice 7, 5 5 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Ok, thanks! But is there a way to get it working through requests? No better possibility than trying it yourself, maybe?

This is deprecated since Python 3. What is the best way to add a username and password to this code? Show 6 more comments. As mentioned here : import urllib urllib. Why's that? Unless, you are looking to do a lot more, this should be good. Ok, now I've read the links you've provided for requests usage. I'm confused about how to declare the file path, for saving the download. How do I use os and shutil for this?

For Python3: import urllib. I am not able to extract the http status code with this if the download fails — Aashish Thite. Show 4 more comments. Om Sao Om Sao 5, 1 1 gold badge 31 31 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Why nobody votes for this answer when Python 2 became deprecated and only this solution should work properly I was pulling my hair over the earlier solutions.

Wish I could upvote times! Four methods using wget, urllib and request. Saurabh yadav Saurabh yadav 5 5 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. How did you get the number of function calls? I use wget. Simple and good library if you want to example? Ali Ali 1, 2 2 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Exotic Windows Solution import subprocess subprocess. Max Max 1, 13 13 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Golden Lion Golden Lion 1, 2 2 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges.

Jayme Snyder Jayme Snyder 91 3 3 bronze badges. You can also download large files in chunks. Write the following program. Now run the program, and check your download location, you will found a file has been downloaded.

Now you will learn how can you download file with a progress bar. First of all you have to install tqdm module. Now run the following command on your terminal. This is very nice. You can see the file size is KB and it only took 49 second to download the file. So guys we have successfully completed this Python Download File Tutorial. I hope, you found it helpful if yes then must share with others.

And if you have any query regarding this tutorial then feel free to comment. And yes for getting python tutorials stay tuned with Simplified Python. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Import urllib.