How to get pdf filename with Python requests?

Question

I\'m using the Python requests lib to get a PDF file from the web. This works fine, but I now also want the original filename. If I go to a PDF file in Firefox and click

Answer 1

It is specified in an http header content-disposition. So to extract the name you would do:

import re
d = r.headers['content-disposition']
fname = re.findall("filename=(.+)", d)[0]

Name extracted from the string via regular expression (re module).