Downloading and unzipping a .zip file without writing to disk

Question

I have managed to get my first python script to work which downloads a list of .ZIP files from a URL and then proceeds to extract the ZIP files and writes them to disk.

Answer 1

Adding on to the other answers using requests:

 # download from web

 import requests
 url = 'http://mlg.ucd.ie/files/datasets/bbc.zip'
 content = requests.get(url)

 # unzip the content
 from io import BytesIO
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 f = ZipFile(BytesIO(content.content))
 print(f.namelist())

 # outputs ['bbc.classes', 'bbc.docs', 'bbc.mtx', 'bbc.terms']

Use help(f) to get more functions details for e.g. extractall() which extracts the contents in zip file which later can be used with with open.