Get a file from an ASPX webpage using Python

Question

I\'m trying to download a CSV file from this site, but I keep getting an HTML file when I\'m using this piece of code (which used to work until a few weeks ago), or when I\'m us

Answer 1

Solved by using the Requests library instead of urllib2:

import requests

url = "http://www.....aspx?download=1"

file_name = "Data.csv"
u = requests.get(url)

file_size = int(u.headers['content-length'])
print "Downloading: %s Bytes: %s" % (file_name, file_size)

with open(file_name, 'wb') as f:
    for chunk in u.iter_content(chunk_size=1024): 
        if chunk: # filter out keep-alive new chunks
            f.write(chunk)
            f.flush()
f.close()