net-dl 0.1.3

Download web pages and files from the internet using CLI or as a Python module.

net-dl

Download web pages and files from the internet. Can be used as a standalone CLI command, or as a python module.

Project README

Installation

End Users (with pipx)

python3 -m pip install pipx
pipx install net-dl

Dev Users (with pip)

python3 -m pip install net-dl

Usage

CLI command

~$ # print content to stdout if text/html/json/xml
~$ net-dl 'https://httpbin.org/json'
{
  "slideshow": {
    "author": "Yours Truly", 
    "date": "date of publication", 
    "slides": [
      {
        "title": "Wake up to WonderWidgets!", 
        "type": "all"
      }, 
      {
        "items": [
          "Why <em>WonderWidgets</em> are great", 
          "Who <em>buys</em> WonderWidgets"
        ], 
        "title": "Overview", 
        "type": "all"
      }
    ], 
    "title": "Sample Slide Show"
  }
}

~$ # save content to disk if file
~$ net-dl 'https://httpbin.org/image/svg'
 [...................................                                     ]  50%

Python module

Built-in progress bar

>>> import net_dl
>>> url = 'https://httpbin.org/image/svg'
>>> dl = net_dl.Download(url)
>>> dl.get()
 [........................................................................] 100%
0
>>> import logging
>>> l = logging.get_logger()
>>> l.setLevel(logging.INFO)
>>> dl.get()
INFO:root:File already exists: /home/nate/g/net-dl/svg
0
>>>

External progress bar
demo/tkapp.py:

from net_dl import Download
from queue import Queue
from threading import Thread
from tkinter import IntVar
from tkinter import StringVar
from tkinter import Tk
from tkinter import ttk


class Win(ttk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, root):
        super().__init__(root)
        self.root = root
        self.root.title("net-dl demo")

        self.urlv = StringVar()
        self.urlw = ttk.Entry(self, textvariable=self.urlv)
        self.getw = ttk.Button(self, text="Get", command=self.get)
        self.progq = Queue()
        self.progv = IntVar()
        self.proge = '<<UpdateProgress>>'
        self.root.bind(self.proge, self.update_progress)
        self.progw = ttk.Progressbar(
            self,
            mode='determinate',
            variable=self.progv,
            )

        self.grid(column=0, row=0, sticky='nesw')
        self.urlw.grid(column=0, row=0, columnspan=4, sticky='we')
        self.getw.grid(column=4, row=0)
        self.progw.grid(column=0, row=1, columnspan=5, sticky='we')

    def get(self):
        dl = Download(
            self.urlv.get(),
            progress_queue=self.progq,
            callback=self.root.event_generate,
            callback_args=[self.proge],
            )
        self.get_thread = Thread(target=dl.get, daemon=True)
        self.get_thread.start()

    def update_progress(self, evt):
        self.progv.set(self.progq.get())


def run():
    root = Tk()
    Win(root)
    root.mainloop()

Run code:

demo$ python -c 'import tkapp; tkapp.run()'

Releasing on PyPI

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