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Navy Seal
Navy Seal

Reputation: 125

Downloading JSON file through Python

I have a link that gives me a "save as" dialog box for a .pst file every time I run it. I want to try to save the file to a 'sample.txt' file without opening it since the size is 500 MB.

Is there any way to get around this..?

import urllib

jsonl = urllib.request.urlopen("test.com/csv?date=2019-07-17")

I have tried the code above but it gives me 

<http.client.HTTPResponse at 0x9ac4k10>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1927

Answers (2)

Navy Seal
Navy Seal

Reputation: 125

Ok so I had a lot of trouble interacting with the site. I decided to just go with the webbrowser library.

import webbrowser
chrome_path="C:xxx\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"
webbrowser.register('chrome', None,webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser(chrome_path))
url = 'http://testsite/csv?date=2019-07-18'

Setting chrome to download files automatically populates my download folder from where i can automate everything else :)

Upvotes: 1

Wamadahama
Wamadahama

Reputation: 1648

You need to read the data out of the object that urlopen returns.

Try 

import urllib
with urllib.request.urlopen("test.com/csv?date=2019-07-17") as f:
        jsonl = f.read()

Upvotes: 1

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