GitHub_Download_file_from_url.ipynb

Kernel: Python 3

GitHub - Download file from url

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Tags: #github #productivity #code #operations #snippet #dataframe

Author: Jeremy Ravenel

Last update: 2023-04-24 (Created: 2022-03-18)

Description: This notebook provides instructions on how to download a file from a URL using GitHub.

Input

Import needed library

import requests
import naas
import uuid

Model

Default Github file for testing purpose

target = "https://github.com/jupyter-naas/awesome-notebooks/blob/master/Plotly/Create%20Candlestick%20chart.ipynb"

Convert url to downloadable one

# https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jupyter-naas/awesome-notebooks/master/Dataviz/Plotly/Create%20Candlestick%20chart.ipynb
raw_target = target.replace("https://github.com/", "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/")
raw_target = raw_target.replace("/blob/", "/")
print(raw_target)

Output

Dowload file locally

import urllib.parse

r = requests.get(raw_target)
uid = uuid.uuid4().hex

file_name = raw_target.split("/")[-1]
file_name = urllib.parse.unquote(file_name)

with open(file_name, "wb") as f:
    f.write(r.content)