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Note that the file might be streamed through a software or protected somehow. Each file on a web page has a URL, and we can get it manually like we just saw or automatically using code. The “ img” tag contains the “src” attribute that holds the URL of the image.

The source code of the web page will appear in the Elements Tab in the Inspector, and the image html tag “img” will be highlighted (check the screenshot bellow). Go to any amazon product and right click on the product image (picture), then click on Inspect. but if you just want to download one file, you can do it manually. The copy and past process should be don’t automatically in large projects.

Inspect the web page pointing on the file.

The first step to download a file, is to get the URL of that file on the web page. The First Step – Always check for the file’s URL on the website If not, the file might be streamed and scraping it could be hard or even impossible.

The file’s URL must contain the extension of the file.

The file desired to scrape should not be streamed or opened in the browser using a special web application that doesn’t show its URL.

Because if we download and save with a wrong extension, it won’t open later. But before assigning an extension, we need to understand what extension the file has in the first place. Assign pdf to PDFs, mp4 to mp4 videos, jpg to JPG images, and so on. This option is mandatory in python when scraping binary files online.Ĥ- We write ( save) the file in binary mode ( wb) by chunks using the iter_content() function.ĥ- The difference in saving one file over another in our code, has to do with the extension in which we save it in since all file are saved in binary.

The server will send back an HTTP response that contains the file.ģ- When requesting for the file, we need to keep the stream open by setting stream=True. pdf in the link.Ģ- We will use requests to send an HTTP request to the server using the URL. For example a PDF URL would look like: “”, there’s a. The URL of the file will contain the extension of that file. Files are usually statically stored on a server somewhere, meaning the don’t change place or name. In order to scrape any type of files using python, we first need to understand how we are going to scrape them.ġ -We first need to get the URL of the file.