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painless download with the wget module
December 15, 2013
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Problem
You want to download something to your local machine.
Solution
You can use the wget module for this purpose:
import wget wget.download(url)
It cannot be any simpler. You can find wget on PyPi. Installation via pip.
Note that the module uses urllib.urlretrieve for downloading, not wget.
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