Python seek on remote file using HTTP

Question

How do I seek to a particular position on a remote (HTTP) file so I can download only that part?

Lets say the bytes on a remote file were: 1234567890

I wanna

Answer 1

I highly recommend using the requests library. It is easily the best HTTP library I have ever used. In particular, to accomplish what you have described, you would do something like:

import requests

url = "http://www.sffaudio.com/podcasts/ShellGameByPhilipK.Dick.pdf"

# Retrieve bytes between offsets 3 and 5 (inclusive).
r = requests.get(url, headers={"range": "bytes=3-5"})

# If a 4XX client error or a 5XX server error is encountered, we raise it.
r.raise_for_status()