save url as a file name in python

Question

Firstly, I\'m pretty new in python, please leave a comment as well if you consider to down vote

I have a url such as

http://example.com/here/there/         


        

Answer 1

Using urllib.urlretrieve:

    import urllib

    testfile = urllib.URLopener()
    testfile.retrieve("http://example.com/here/there/index.html", "/tmp/index.txt")