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

Yes, definietly requests is great package to use in something related to HTTP requests. but we need to be careful with the encoding type of the incoming data as well below is an example which explains the difference

from requests import get

# case when the response is byte array
url = 'some_image_url'

response = get(url)
with open('output', 'wb') as file:
    file.write(response.content)


# case when the response is text
# Here unlikely if the reponse content is of type **iso-8859-1** we will have to override the response encoding
url = 'some_page_url'

response = get(url)
# override encoding by real educated guess as provided by chardet
r.encoding = r.apparent_encoding

with open('output', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
    file.write(response.content)