Python code to download file on the internet using urllib library (python 3)

import urllib.request as urllib2

import time

import logging

def fileDownload(url, file_name):

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

logger = logging.getLogger('[fileDownload]')

num_of_retries = 3

time_interval = 2

for retrycnt in range(num_of_retries):

try:

u = urllib2.urlopen(url)

break

except Exception as e:

logger.error(' Faild to download: ' + str(e) + ', Number of remaining attempts: ' \

+ str(num_of_retries - retrycnt - 1))

time.sleep(time_interval)

f = open(file_name, 'wb')

meta = u.info()

file_size = int(dict(meta.items())['Content-Length'])

print('Downloading: ', file_name, ' Bytes: ', file_size)

file_size_dl = 0

block_sz = 8192

while True:

buffer = u.read(block_sz)

if not buffer:

break

file_size_dl += len(buffer)

f.write(buffer)

status = r"%10d [%3.2f%%]" % (file_size_dl, file_size_dl * 100. / file_size)

status = status + chr(8)*(len(status)+1)

print(status)

f.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":

url = '[file_url_to_download]'

file_name = '[file_name_to_save]'

fileDownload(url, file_name)

my github url:

https://github.com/entymos/crawling/blob/master/python3_file_download

refer to here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22676/how-do-i-download-a-file-over-http-using-python?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/112868/retrying-a-web-request-in-python?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa