Python how to download and save a file

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Please look at this answer: stackoverflow. Check this you might your answer here. I think IvanVinogradov answered your question. Proper use of os. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Ivan Vinogradov Ivan Vinogradov 3, 6 6 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. So use os os. Or add your own absolute path in your OS pathstyle of choice. This answer just shows an example of handling file downloads with requests.

Of course you should use os package to deal file file system — Ivan Vinogradov. You need to create a new folder and save the file in it? Show 4 more comments.

Worth noting that urlretrieve is a legacy function from Python 2 and might be deprecated at some point. It hasn't been thus far, but the documentation warns that it might.

Add a comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Hello guys, in this tutorial i am going to show you how you can download file from internet. You will also learn to create a file downloader with a nice progress bar for your terminal using python. One of the most important and common programming tasks to perform on the web is downloading files from different online resources. A huge number of successful applications allow users to download files.

So these are just a few web application functions that require downloading files:. Using requests module is one of the most popular way to download file.

So first of all you need to install requests module, so run the following command on your terminal. Now run this program and see what happens. Now run the above code and check your download folder, you will see the file has been downloaded. And now its time to move another section of this tutorial that is how to download different types of files such as text, html, pdf, image files etc using python.

In this section, we will see how to download large files in chunks, download multiple files and download files with a progress bar. 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.