Answers for "urllib download file to folder"

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)

urllib download file to folder

import urllib.request, os
#Check if folder exists, if not create folder
def check_folder_exists(folder_name):
  if not os.path.isdir(folder_name):
    os.makedirs(folder_name)
  
folder_name = str(/downloads/2017/)
check_folder_exists(folder_name)
 
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, (folder_name +'foo.txt'))