How to Use MediaFire with Python
Python has a very powerful library called “requests” for programmatically launching http requests. You can use requests to download files hosted on the HTTP protocol. Run the following command to install the Python library for prompts. This assumes that you already have Python 3 installed on your system.
You may need to prefix the above command with sudo if you get a permissions error on your Linux system.
Conclusion
Automating file downloads into your development and analysis routines can save you a lot of time. As shown in this tutorial, when you need many files or large files, implementing a parallel download routine can significantly reduce file acquisition time.
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More detailed steps
To download a file from a URL using Python, follow these three steps:
- Install the requirements module and import it into your project.
- Use require.get() to download the data behind this URL.
- Write the file to a file on your system by calling open().
What is the unit testing framework?
The unittest framework was originally inspired by JUnit and had a similar flavor to major unit test frameworks in other languages. This is the default Python testing framework provided with the Python package, and thus the framework most developers start their testing with. It can also be used for test automation, collection aggregation, etc.
To install unittest on our machine, we first need to install Python.
Output:
Now let’s try to download the same file again:
