A while ago I realised that many of the python functions available  for url handling etc. dont work well in all platforms.

besides some of the functions work for urls to local and others work for local to local file copies. A generic library which will copy a file irrespective of the local or remote location of its library is always a good idea IMO.

As a part of the work I was doing I found the need to write my own robust downloader/copier library. This downloader allows anywhere to anywhere file copy.

I called it downloader.py

you have to pass the url or local file path of the file(binary or html/text) and the local location where you want it to be copied. and the function will do it

here is the syntax 

import downloader

downloader.downloadfile(sourcepath,destinationpath)

• Examples
  • url to local(text)
    
    • import downloader
      downloader.downloadfile("http://abc.com/abc.html","/home/shantanu/abc.txt")
  • local to local(text)
    • import downloader
      downloader.downloadfile("/home/shantanu/abc.txt","/home/shantanu/abc2.txt")
  • url to local(Binary)
    
    • import downloader
      downloader.downloadfile("http://abc.com/abc.jpg","/home/shantanu/abc.jpg")
  • local to local(text)
    • import downloader
      downloader.downloadfile("/home/shantanu/abc.jpg","/home/shantanu/abc2.jpg")

downloader.py has been released under GPL by me and you are free to copy modify or distribute it. I request you to keep the original credits.

Happy downloading.

 Coming up:

 A project to create a spider using downloader.py

	File name	Size	Last changed
	downloader.py	958 B	20/10/2009 08:11:21

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