How to download file using Python?

Question

I'm completely new to Python, I want to download a file by sending a request to the server. When I type it into my browser, I see the CSV file is downloaded, but when I try sending a get request it does not return anything. for example:

import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen('https://publicwww.com/websites/%22google.com%22/?export=csv')
data = response.read()
print 'data: ',  data

It does not show anything, how can I handle that? When I search on the web, all the questions are about how to send a get request. I can send the get request, but I have no idea of how the file can be downloaded as it is not in the response of the request.

I do not have any idea of how to find a solution for that.

Solution 1

You can use the urlretrieve to download the file

EX:

u = "https://publicwww.com/websites/%22google.com%22/?export=csv"

import urllib
urllib.request.urlretrieve (u, "Ktest.csv")

Solution 2

You can also download a file using requests module in python.

import shutil

import requests

url = "https://publicwww.com/websites/%22google.com%22/?export=csv"
response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
with open('file.csv', 'wb') as out_file:
    shutil.copyfileobj(response.raw, out_file)
del response

Solution 3

import os
os.system("wget https://publicwww.com/websites/%22google.com%22/?export=csv")

You could try wget, if you have it.

Comments

[Ubdus Samad]

Please don't down-vote without providing a reason, i see two down-votes and not a single reason for it.

[jschreiner]

I downvote this because the question asks how to do it in Python. Calling out to the os and running another executable is not "in Python". Have a look at @Rakesh's answer to see how it's done using the urllib library.

[Louis Yang]

This doesn't work on Windows.