module `helper.download_helper`¶

Short summary¶

module pyrsslocal.helper.download_helper

various function to get the content from a url

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`get_url_content_timeout`	Downloads a file from internet (it assumes it is text information, otherwise, encoding should be None).

various function to get the content from a url

pyrsslocal.helper.download_helper.get_url_content_timeout(url, timeout=10, output=None, encoding='utf8')¶

Downloads a file from internet (it assumes it is text information, otherwise, encoding should be None).

Parameters:

url – (str) url
timeout – (in seconds), after this time, the function drops an returns None, -1 for forever
output – (str) if None, the content is stored in that file
encoding – (str) utf8 by default, but if it is None, the returned information is binary

Returns:

content of the url

If the function automatically detects that the downloaded data is in gzip format, it will decompress it.