Download an internet resource in Python and save it on my desired location

Question

I am new to Python and I am using urllib2 to download files over the internet. I am using this code

import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.example.com/myfile.zip')
...

This code actually save the zip file on my temp folder, I don't want it to be like that, I want to save it on my desired location. Is it possible?

Answer 1

You can use the urllib.urlretrieve function, to download the distant file to your local filesystem.

>>> import urllib
>>> urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.example.com/myfile.zip', 'path/to/download/dir/myfile.zip')

See the urllib.urlretrieve documentation for more info.

Answer 2

Simply use something like this :

f = open("path_to_your_file_to_save", 'w')
f.write(urllib.urlopen(url).read())
f.close()

Where path_to_your_file_to_save equals [path_where_save] + [filename.ext]