Download a file providing username and password using Python

Question

My file named as \'blueberry.jpg\' begins downloading, when I click on the following url manually provided that the username and password are typed when asked: http://exampl

Answer 1

I'm willing to bet you are using basic auth. So try doing the following:

import urllib.request

url = 'http://username:pwd@example.com/blueberry/download'

data = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()

fo = open('E:\\quail\\' + url.split('/')[1] + '.jpg', 'w')
print (data, file = fo)

fo.close()

Let me know if this works.

Answer 2

Use requests, which provides a friendlier interface to the various url libraries in Python:

import os
import requests

from urlparse import urlparse

username = 'foo'
password = 'sekret'

url = 'http://example.com/blueberry/download/somefile.jpg'
filename = os.path.basename(urlparse(url).path)

r = requests.get(url, auth=(username,password))

if r.status_code == 200:
   with open(filename, 'wb') as out:
      for bits in r.iter_content():
          out.write(bits)

UPDATE: For Python3 get urlparse with: from urllib.parse import urlparse