Questions tagged [urlretrieve]
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selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: File not found while trying to upload image by url through selenium
I need to upload image via external url, i found examples only that shows how to upload locally stored images. This what i tried and this didn't…

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How to rerun a the script when an error occured?
I have written a script that search for values in xml file. This files I retrieve online via the following code
# Reads entire file into a string
$result = file_get_contents($xml_link);
# Returns the xml string into an object
$xml =…

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Adding cookie data into a requests.urlretrieve
i am trying to download a .torrent file from a password protected site.
I have managed to get to the site using cookies like so:
cookies = {'uid': '232323', 'pass': '31321231jh12j3hj213hj213hk',
'__cfduid':…

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urllib.request.urlretrieve leads to an urlopen error [WinError 10060]
I try to download a tgz file from an url. If I use the link and copy it to Firefox, a download-as dialog occures and I can download the data.
If I use this code, I get an urlopen error:
urllib.request.urlretrieve(HOUSING_URL,…

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urlopen fails with getaddrinfo error
I deleted my python 2.7 and installed the new 3.X version(conda). Then the urlopen just did not work.
from urllib.request import urlopen
html = urlopen("http://www.google.com/")
returns URLError: urlopen error [Errno 10093] getaddrinfo failed.…

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close the ftp connection after using urlretrieve
from six.moves.urllib.request import urlopen, urlretrieve
urlretrieve('ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis.dailyavgs/surface/air.sig995.1949.nc', filename='C:\\desktop\\')
Do I need to close the ftp connection after using…

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404 Not Found when use request.urlretrieve
I get some response from external service. Then need to get url from this response and by this url download a file.
When i pass url to urlretrieve from response.text, urlretrieve return an Error.
But when i manually copy the url. Then set variable…

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How Can You Read Image Files from a URL and display it in Google Colab?
Using Google Colab, I would like to be able to read in some number of image files each of which is at a different url and then display each of them. I got the following code to work but it only displays the first image (no output for the 2nd or…

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urllib: specifying download path makes url invalid
I am trying to write a function that takes a url and a path and downloads a file to that path IF it's a text file.
import urllib
import re
import os
mcBethURL = 'https://ia802707.us.archive.org/1/items/macbeth02264gut/0ws3410.txt'
def …
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Whatsapp cloud API can not retrieve media file
I am looking for the documentation "https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/cloud-api/reference/media#example-4"
Both tested with postman and curl but instead of audio file I am getting HTML response, saying "sorry, something went wrong"
I was…
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urlretrieve is really slow in my programm to download image from a specific website
I'm using urlretrieve from the urllib.request library to download images from a website.
My code is slow af. it took 12 min to save 4 images (64x64 and png). This isn't normal as i've tested it on other sites and it works way faster (i mean 3…

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I want to designate folder to store google images
urllib.request.urlretrieve(imgUrl, image_name + "_" + str(count+1) + ".jpg")
google images are always saved the same folder as where source code is
every time I want to change folders to save them
import os
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
import…

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Pass a file from a PHP server to a Python server (HTTP request)
I have a web application running on a Laravel PHP server. For some needs (Word document processing), I implemented a Python server that does data extraction. I would like to know how to call my Python server from PHP by passing a file to…

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multiple image downloader using CSV file and python
I am facing an error with this code. Can anyone help me with it so I can automate the process of downloading all the images in the CSV file that contain all the URLs of the images?
The error I am getting is:
URLError …

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urllib urlretrieve only saving final image in list of urls
I'm fairly new to using Python. I have been trying to set up a very basic web scraper to help speed up my workday, it is supposed to download images from a section of a website and save them.
I have a list of urls and I am trying to use…

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