Download files with requests

Dennis Patterson you are mixing up bits and bytes on your calculation. Also a buffer size of 1KB is pretty small for the typical file size and bandwidth nowadays: You do not want to choke the download just to print progress several times per second! Also you are multiplying by instead of dividing by to get the total bytes downloaded: What's the logic behind that? S: Also it'd be best to just accumulate len chunk for accuracy on total bytes downloaded or at least adjust for last chunk's length — NotGaeL.

To add on, you probably want to do a os. Add a comment. The Overflow Blog. Podcast what if you could invest in your favorite developer? Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Feb 15, Jan 22, Jan 19, Jan 6, Dec 28, Dec 24, Dec 19, Dec 11, Nov 27, Nov 19, Nov 13, Nov 7, Nov 5, Oct 26, Oct 23, Oct 19, Oct 14, Oct 9, Jul 24, Jun 22, May 22, May 15, May 14, May 12, Apr 15, Apr 1, Feb 25, Feb 14, Feb 13, Download the file for your platform.

If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages. Mentioned in the docs here: docs. EricCousineau You can patch up this behaviour replacing the read method: response. Adding length param got me better download speeds shutil. Show 18 more comments. Am I missing something? For Python 2. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge.

I use System Monitor in Kubuntu. It shows me that python process memory increases up to 1. That memory bloat sucks, maybe f. That's what's causing the memory bloat. Show 1 more comment. Ben Moskovitch Ben Moskovitch 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Here is a snippet import wget wget. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.

ImportError , it means you don't have the requests library installed. Email me if you're having that issue, because it likely means you probably don't have Anaconda installed properly. The get method of the requests module is the one we will use most frequently — which corresponds to how the majority of the HTTP requests your browser makes involve the GET method. The get method requires one argument: a web URL, e.

The URL's scheme — i.