Download Multiple Files On Web Page Using Requests And BeautifulSoup

Ever found yourself scrolling through a web page filled with multiple files, feeling overwhelmed with the tedious process of clicking on each one individually to download them? Wouldn’t it be great to automate this task, saving both time and effort? I had a similar requirement where I needed to download a lot of PDFs on a single web page, and clicking on each, waiting for the PDF to download, and then waiting for the browser to become responsive again was all becoming a tedious task. ...

April 2, 2023 · 6 min · 1138 words · Ryan Sheehy

Download Files Using Python Requests Library

If you’re looking to download a file using Python, the requests library is a great option to consider. This library allows you to easily make HTTP requests and handle responses in a Pythonic way. First, you’ll need to install the requests library if you haven’t already. You can do this using pip, the package installer for Python. pip install requests Once you have requests installed, you can use it to make a GET request to the URL of the file you want to download. This will return a Response object that contains the content of the response, including the file you want to download. ...

March 28, 2023 · 5 min · 936 words · Ryan Sheehy