HTTP Download very Big File

Question

I\'m working at a web application in Python/Twisted.

I want the user to be able to download a very big file (> 100 Mb). I don\'t want to load all the file in memory (of

Answer 1

Here is an example of downloading files in chunks using urllib2, which you could use from inside of a twisted function call

import os
import urllib2
import math

def downloadChunks(url):
    """Helper to download large files
        the only arg is a url
       this file will go to a temp directory
       the file will also be downloaded
       in chunks and print out how much remains
    """

    baseFile = os.path.basename(url)

    #move the file to a more uniq path
    os.umask(0002)
    temp_path = "/tmp/"
    try:
        file = os.path.join(temp_path,baseFile)

        req = urllib2.urlopen(url)
        total_size = int(req.info().getheader('Content-Length').strip())
        downloaded = 0
        CHUNK = 256 * 10240
        with open(file, 'wb') as fp:
            while True:
                chunk = req.read(CHUNK)
                downloaded += len(chunk)
                print math.floor( (downloaded / total_size) * 100 )
                if not chunk: break
                fp.write(chunk)
    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
        print "HTTP Error:",e.code , url
        return False
    except urllib2.URLError, e:
        print "URL Error:",e.reason , url
        return False

    return file