Python download file http password

Show 7 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Burhan Khalid Burhan Khalid k 17 17 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Simply replace filename with whatever you want the filename to be. For Python3 get urlparse with: from urllib. Add a comment. I'm willing to bet you are using basic auth. So try doing the following: import urllib. MinimalMaximizer MinimalMaximizer 4 4 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges.

The error message tells:http. InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: — user As much as the solution i provided is simple - Burhan Khalid's is much better. It can handle potential error messages in a clean way. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses.

Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Notice how I create flask instance. Next I will create main. In the above source code, the root path or endpoint will simply render the UI. This UI contains only one link for downloading a file from the server. Clicking on the link will ask user to save the file in a chosen location. The file type could be anything. As you see I have tested with four types of files.

I hope this example will work with other file types as well. Now create a download. Notice in the above template file I am using Flask EL Expression language to evaluate the link endpoint. Now navigate to the project root directory from command line tool and execute the command python main.

If you want to change the port then you can change the line app. Previously, we discussed how to upload a file and some data through HTTP multipart in Python 3 using the requests library. After the function is called, it first uses requests. After the function call completes, you should find Techcoil's logo in the same directory as the Python script if your computer is connected to the Internet. There could be cases where the client need to supply some information to the HTTP server in order to download a file.

In this case, we had used requests. After the function call completes, you should find number. In addition, number. Clivant a. He owns techcoil. Introduction Here I am going to show a simple example on how to download a file from web application using Python Flask. Prerequisites Python 3. Project Directory First step is to create a project root directory under which I will put all the required files for the project.

Configuring Flask Create the below app.