Python progress bar and downloads

Question

I have a python script that launches a URL that is a downloadable file. Is there some way to have python use commandline to display the download progress as oppose to launch

Answer 1

Sorry for being late with an answer; just updated the tqdm docs:

https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/#hooks-and-callbacks

Using urllib.urlretrieve and OOP:

import urllib
from tqdm.auto import tqdm

class TqdmUpTo(tqdm):
    """Provides `update_to(n)` which uses `tqdm.update(delta_n)`."""
    def update_to(self, b=1, bsize=1, tsize=None):
        """
        b  : Blocks transferred so far
        bsize  : Size of each block
        tsize  : Total size
        """
        if tsize is not None:
            self.total = tsize
        self.update(b * bsize - self.n)  # will also set self.n = b * bsize

eg_link = "https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/releases/download/v4.46.0/tqdm-4.46.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl"
eg_file = eg_link.split('/')[-1]
with TqdmUpTo(unit='B', unit_scale=True, unit_divisor=1024, miniters=1,
              desc=eg_file) as t:  # all optional kwargs
    urllib.urlretrieve(
        eg_link, filename=eg_file, reporthook=t.update_to, data=None)
    t.total = t.n

or using requests.get and file wrappers:

import requests
from tqdm.auto import tqdm

eg_link = "https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/releases/download/v4.46.0/tqdm-4.46.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl"
eg_file = eg_link.split('/')[-1]
response = requests.get(eg_link, stream=True)
with tqdm.wrapattr(open(eg_file, "wb"), "write", miniters=1,
                   total=int(response.headers.get('content-length', 0)),
                   desc=eg_file) as fout:
    for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=4096):
        fout.write(chunk)

You could of course mix & match techniques.