I was looking for a way to download a file from http://sourceforge.net/ with the following code:
url = "something on source forge" req = urllib.request.Request(url) u = urllib.request.urlopen(req) bin = u.read() u.close() with open("something.zip","wb") as f : f.write(bin)
It failed due to redirections. Doing it myself or trying to look for some module doing the job. Every query I tried on a search engine about getting a file from SourceForge in Python gave me links to Python projects on hosted on SourceForge. Not exactly what I was looking for. So...
I tried some search queries including redirection and after a couple of them I found the following module requests which made it a lot easier:
req = requests.get(url, allow_redirects = True, stream=True) bin = req.raw.read() with open("something.zip","wb") as f : f.write(bin)
I guess the module urllib3 could also do the trick but I did not try it.
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