Questions tagged [fancyurlopener]

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urllib.request.FancyURLOpener is deprecated, what is better method?

I have been using urllib.request.FancyURLOpener() to retrieve images from URLs. My code is something like this: class MyOpener(FancyURLopener): version = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127…
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Trying to use fancyURLopener in Python3 for a PDF, but it gives me a DeprecationWarning error

I am trying to access a PDF file from a bank's website for PDF mining, but it keeps returning HTTP 403 error. So as a workaround, I am trying to change my User-Agent to a browser for accessing the file (and downloading it). The code below is part of…
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Alternative for depreciated AppUrlOpener and FancyURLopener

I am a total Python novice and am trying to convert someone elses code from PY2 to PY3 that downloads some xml code and converts it, I am stuck on how to replace the AppUrlOpener Towards the start there is class…
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DeprecationWarning: AppURLopener style of invoking requests is deprecated

I wrote a program a while ago and it always was fine until I replaced my hard drive and had to reinstall everything. This is the code segment I guess that can't work anymore due to depreciation class AppURLopener(urllib.request.FancyURLopener): …
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Python: FancyURLopener fails on second loop, ValueError: read of closed file

\Anaconda3\lib\tempfile.py", line 483, in func_wrapper return func(*args, **kwargs) ValueError: read of closed file I don't know if this is the issue even I can't figure this out. This is being called in a loop and the first loops works fine but…
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can't send user and password to FancyURLopener getting missing 2 required positional arguments: 'user' and 'passwd'

I thought I was calling this correctly but obviously not. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? import urllib.request class testURLopener(urllib.request.FancyURLopener): def __init__(self, user, passwd): self.__user =…
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urlopen error [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed for a local drive

I am trying to run a code in spyder and it throws error " return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPConnection, req) File "C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3-5.2.0\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1320, in do_open raise…
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FancyURLopener.version equivalence in requests

Sometimes it's necessary to change the version attribute when retrieving a request using FancyURLopener, e.g. from urllib.request import FancyURLopener class NewOpener(FancyURLopener): version = 'Some fancy thing' url = 'www.google.com' opener…
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Getting [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590) error when trying to read a URL through FancyURLopener

I am trying to execute below code (reading content from a html) using FancyURLopener. The code was working fine for last 2 months or so , but now it has started to throw the error : IOError: [Errno socket error] [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED]…