import requestsĭoes the url contain a downloadable resource This allows us to skip downloading files which weren't meant to be downloaded. That way involved just fetching the headers of a url before actually downloading it. I looked into the requests documentation and found a better way to do it. So if the file is large, this will do nothing but waste bandwidth. It works but is not the optimum way to do so as it involves downloading the file for checking the header. Headers usually contain a Content-Type parameter which tells us about the type of data the url is linking to.Ī naive way to do it will be - r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects= True) To solve this, what I did was inspecting the headers of the URL. When the URL linked to a webpage rather than a binary, I had to not download that file and just keep the link as is. This was one of the problems I faced in the Import module of Open Event where I had to download media from certain links. If you said that a HTML page will be downloaded, you are spot on. What do you think will happen if the above code is used to download it ? Now let's take another example where url is. The above code will download the media at and save it as google.ico. Open( 'google.ico', 'wb').write(r.content) R = requests.get(url, allow_redirects= True) Let's start with baby steps on how to download a file using requests - import requests I will write about methods to correctly download binaries from URLs and set their filenames. I will be using the god-send library requests for it. With open("D://"+local_filename, 'wb') as f:įor chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):įx= open(os.path.join("D://", "video.This post is about how to efficiently/correctly download files from URLs using Python. If they are okay, can you tell me how to separate the video from what I got or if the video is even there? I'll post two codes of mine that are meant to download a video so you can tell me if they have any problem. Page and I don't know what I got, or even if the video is in there since the size of the output file is usually 50-170 KB and videos are usually way more than that.
Soįar I've heard about urllib, urllib2 and requests modules that help to download a video from URL, but when I tried them I apparently got all the data on that I am new to python and I want to download a video from a given URL.
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