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urllib

How to download a file over HTTP?

August 22, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a small utility that I use to download an MP3 file from a website on a schedule and then builds/updates a podcast XML file which I’ve added to iTunes.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags http, python, urllib Leave a comment

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode characters

August 21, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m trying to scrape a website, but it gives me an error.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags beautifulsoup, python, urllib Leave a comment

What are the differences between the urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and requests module?

August 21, 2022 by Magenaut

In Python, what are the differences between the urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and requests modules? Why are there three? They seem to do the same thing…

Categories Python, Q&A Tags python, python-2.x, python-requests, urllib, urllib2 Leave a comment

How to urlencode a querystring in Python?

August 21, 2022 by Magenaut

I am trying to urlencode this string before I submit.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags python, urlencode, urllib Leave a comment

urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

I am trying to automate download of historic stock data using python. The URL I am trying to open responds with a CSV file, but I am unable to open using urllib2. I have tried changing user agent as specified in few questions earlier, I even tried to accept response cookies, with no luck. Can you please help.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags http, python, urllib Leave a comment

How can I percent-encode URL parameters in Python?

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

If I do

Categories Python, Q&A Tags encoding, python, url, urlencode, urllib Leave a comment

can we use XPath with BeautifulSoup?

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

I am using BeautifulSoup to scrape an URL and I had the following code, to find the td tag whose class is 'empformbody':

Categories Python, Q&A Tags beautifulsoup, python, urllib, web-scraping, xpath Leave a comment

AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘urlopen’

August 18, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m trying to use Python to download the HTML source code of a website but I’m receiving this error.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags python, python-3.x, urllib Leave a comment

Download Returned Zip file from URL

August 18, 2022 by Magenaut

If I have a URL that, when submitted in a web browser, pops up a dialog box to save a zip file, how would I go about catching and downloading this zip file in Python?

Categories Python, Q&A Tags download, python, url, urllib, zip Leave a comment

Python: URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060]

August 18, 2022 by Magenaut

OS: Windows 7; Python 2.7.3 using the Python GUI Shell

Categories Python, Q&A Tags python, python-2.7, urllib, urllib2 Leave a comment
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