Download file from web in Python 3

Question

I am creating a program that will download a .jar (java) file from a web server, by reading the URL that is specified in the .jad file of the same game/application. I\'m usi

Answer 1

I use requests package whenever I want something related to HTTP requests because its API is very easy to start with:

first, install requests

$ pip install requests

then the code:

from requests import get  # to make GET request


def download(url, file_name):
    # open in binary mode
    with open(file_name, "wb") as file:
        # get request
        response = get(url)
        # write to file
        file.write(response.content)