Python urllib urlretrieve behind proxy

Question

I looked into the documentation of urllib but all I could find on proxies was related to urlopen. However, I want to download a PDF from a given URL and store it locally but

Answer 1

You've got the right idea you're just missing a few things.

proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': '127.0.0.1'})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')