How to download file using Python? [duplicate]

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.

Answer 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")

Answer 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