I have the following web address:
dls = "http://www.muellerindustries.com/uploads/pdf/UW SPD0114.xls"
I tried to download the file:
urllib2.urlopen(dls, "test.xls")
This made a file called "test.xls" but this is clearly an html file. If I opened the html file in firefox it opened an excel file, but if I opened the file in excel it was definitely not the excel file I was looking for.
If I have a web address like the one above, how do I make python download the excel file as an excel file?
Requests is a versatile HTTP library in python with various applications. One of its applications is to download a file from web using the file URL.
I suggest using requests:
import requests
dls = "http://www.muellerindustries.com/uploads/pdf/UW SPD0114.xls"
resp = requests.get(dls)
output = open('test.xls', 'wb')
output.write(resp.content)
output.close()
To get requests installed:
pip install requests
To add on to Fedalto's requests suggestion (+1), but make it more Pythonic with a context manager:
import requests
dls = "http://www.muellerindustries.com/uploads/pdf/UW SPD0114.xls"
resp = requests.get(dls)
with open('test.xls', 'wb') as output:
output.write(resp.content)
This would save the excel file in the same folder that the script was ran from.
import urllib
dls = "http://www.muellerindustries.com/uploads/pdf/UW SPD0114.xls"
urllib.request.urlretrieve(dls, "test.xls") # For Python 3
# urllib.urlretrieve(dls, "test.xls") # For Python 2
Two issues, one with the code (below), the other that the URL is bad. A (modern) web browser will automatically correct "http://www.muellerindustries.com/uploads/pdf/UW SPD0114.xls" to "http://www.muellerindustries.com/uploads/pdf/UW%20SPD0114.xls" but Python doesn't.
This code works for me on python 3.x
import urllib
outfilename = "test.xls"
url_of_file = "http://www.muellerindustries.com/uploads/pdf/UW%20SPD0114.xls"
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url_of_file, outfilename)
Which gets me the file.
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