How to save a file with a URL name?

Question

I'm saving HTTP request as an HTML page. How can I save the HTML file with the name of the URL.

I'm using Linux OS

So the file name will look like this: "http://www.test.com.html"

My code:

url = "http://www.test.com"
page = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
f = open("./file.html", "w")
f.write(page)
f.close()

What OS are you using? At least on Windows this is not possible. — Mike Scotty, Nov 21 '18 at 16:28
Possible duplicate of [save url as a file name in python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27253530/save-url-as-a-file-name-in-python) — LeKhan9, Nov 21 '18 at 16:29
RTFM: https://docs.python.org/3.0/library/urllib.request.html#urllib.request.urlretrieve — ForceBru, Nov 21 '18 at 16:31

BlueSheepToken · Answer 1 · 2018-11-22T13:40:51.807

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Unfortunately you cannot save a file with a url name. The character "/" is not allowed in Windows file names.

However, you can create a file with the name www.test.com.html with the following line

file_name = url.split('/')[2]

If you need to anything like https://www.test.com/posts/1, you can try to replace / with another custom character that usually not occurs in url such as __

url = 'https://www.test.com/posts/11111111'
file_name = '__'.join(url.split('/')[2:])

Will result in

www.test.com__posts__1

edited Nov 22 '18 at 13:40

answered Nov 21 '18 at 16:32

BlueSheepToken

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I'm using Linux OS – bugnet17 Nov 21 '18 at 16:54
I'm using Linux OS, how can I save the file with the complete URL? for example: "http://www.test.com/djgfdhb989" – bugnet17 Nov 22 '18 at 13:26
I did not try in Linux since I do not have my computer right now. But if my memory serves me right, you cannot either save it this way. I am editing my answer to help you find a workaround – BlueSheepToken Nov 22 '18 at 13:37

How to save a file with a URL name?

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