Answers for "python get file from url"

python download file from url

import requests


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

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

how to download file from python

import wget

url = "https://www.python.org/static/img/[email protected]"

wget.download(url, 'c:/users/LikeGeeks/downloads/pythonLogo.png')

python read url

import urllib

link = "http://www.somesite.com/details.pl?urn=2344"
f = urllib.urlopen(link)
myfile = f.read()
print(myfile)

get file name from url python

import os
from urllib.parse import urlparse

url = "http://photographs.500px.com/kyle/09-09-201315-47-571378756077.jpg"
a = urlparse(url)
print(a.path)                    # Output: /kyle/09-09-201315-47-571378756077.jpg
print(os.path.basename(a.path))  # Output: 09-09-201315-47-571378756077.jpg

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