Download all the links(related documents) on a webpage using Python
I have to download a lot of documents from a webpage. They are wmv files, PDF, BMP etc. Of course, all of them have links to them. So each time, I have to RMC a file, select 'Save Link As' Then save then as type All Files. Is it possible to do this in Python? I search the SO DB and folks have answered question of how to get the links from the webpage. I want to download the actual files. Thanks in advance. (This is not a HW question :)).
Here is an example of how you could download some chosen files from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt
you will need to install mechanize first: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/download.html
import mechanize
from time import sleep
#Make a Browser (think of this as chrome or firefox etc)
br = mechanize.Browser()
#visit http://stockrt.github.com/p/emulating-a-browser-in-python-with-mechanize/
#for more ways to set up your br browser object e.g. so it look like mozilla
#and if you need to fill out forms with passwords.
# Open your site
br.open('http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt')
f=open("source.html","w")
f.write(br.response().read()) #can be helpful for debugging maybe
filetypes=[".zip",".exe",".tar.gz"] #you will need to do some kind of pattern matching on your files
myfiles=[]
for l in br.links(): #you can also iterate through br.forms() to print forms on the page!
for t in filetypes:
if t in str(l): #check if this link has the file extension we want (you may choose to use reg expressions or something)
myfiles.append(l)
def downloadlink(l):
f=open(l.text,"w") #perhaps you should open in a better way & ensure that file doesn't already exist.
br.click_link(l)
f.write(br.response().read())
print l.text," has been downloaded"
#br.back()
for l in myfiles:
sleep(1) #throttle so you dont hammer the site
downloadlink(l)
Note: In some cases you may wish to replace br.click_link(l) with br.follow_link(l) . The difference is that click_link returns a Request object whereas follow_link will directly open the link. See Mechanize difference between br.click_link() and br.follow_link()
--limit , --recursive and --accept command-lines in Wget . For example: wget --accept wmv,doc --limit 2 --recursive http://www.example.com/files/