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Reputation: 250

Permission issue while downloading files from website using Python 2.7

I am trying to download set of files from a website into my local drive in Windows using Python 2.7 but getting permission denied error:

One of the examples is below:

urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.renderx.com/files/demos/examples/Fund.pdf',"c://python")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#151>", line 1, in <module>
    urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.renderx.com/files/demos/examples/Fund.pdf',"c://python")
  File "C:\Python\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 94, in urlretrieve
    return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
  File "C:\Python\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 244, in retrieve
    tfp = open(filename, 'wb')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c://python'

When I don't specify a path, it downloads files (without any issue) into path where Python is installed C://pyhton//Python27... But I want to download all the files in a specific folder. Can you please help me in the issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6248

Answers (1)

suhailvs
suhailvs

Reputation: 21740

If you don't specify a path, python will take the path of the .py file you runned.

As the you provided the second argument the folder name(c://python) that already exist, it probably tried to replace your python directory(c://Python).

You can give the second argument a filename for the downloading file(if same file already exist you may get error). ie:

urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.renderx.com/files/demos/examples/Fund.pdf',
"c://python//fund.pdf")

I assume this will store the file fund.pdf in the python directory

Upvotes: 1

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