I had to do something like this on a version of linux that didn't have the right options compiled into wget. This example is for downloading the memory analysis tool 'guppy'. I'm not sure if it's important or not, but I kept the target file's name the same as the url target name...
Here's what I came up with:
python -c "import requests; r = requests.get('https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/guppy/guppy-0.1.10.tar.gz') ; open('guppy-0.1.10.tar.gz' , 'wb').write(r.content)"
That's the one-liner, here's it a little more readable:
import requests
fname = 'guppy-0.1.10.tar.gz'
url = 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/guppy/' + fname
r = requests.get(url)
open(fname , 'wb').write(r.content)
This worked for downloading a tarball. I was able to extract the package and download it after downloading.
EDIT:
To address a question, here is an implementation with a progress bar printed to STDOUT. There is probably a more portable way to do this without the clint package, but this was tested on my machine and works fine:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from clint.textui import progress
import requests
fname = 'guppy-0.1.10.tar.gz'
url = 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/guppy/' + fname
r = requests.get(url, stream=True)
with open(fname, 'wb') as f:
total_length = int(r.headers.get('content-length'))
for chunk in progress.bar(r.iter_content(chunk_size=1024), expected_size=(total_length/1024) + 1):
if chunk:
f.write(chunk)
f.flush()
