Automatically download energyplus weather data files (epw and ddy), 2 versions python 2 and 3

energyplus weather file download python2.py

import json
import re
import urllib2

path_to_save = '' # create a directory and write the name of directory here
data_file = urllib2.urlopen('https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/raw/develop/weather/master.geojson')
data = json.load(data_file)
# or you can download master.geojson and run the below code instead of downloading from the net
# with open('master.geojson') as data_file:    
#     data = json.load(data_file)
for location in data['features']:
    for file_type in ['epw', 'ddy']:
        match = re.search(r'href=[\'"]?([^\'" >]+)', location['properties'][file_type])
        if match:
            url = match.group(1)
            name = url[url.rfind('/') + 1:]
            print name
            req = urllib2.Request(url, headers={'User-Agent' : "Magic Browser"}) 
            con = urllib2.urlopen( req )
            with open(path_to_save + name, 'wb') as f:
                f.write(con.read())
print 'done!'

energyplus weather file download python3.py

import json
import re
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen

path_to_save = '' # create a directory and write the name of directory here
response = urlopen('https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/raw/develop/weather/master.geojson')
data = json.loads(response.read().decode('utf8'))
count = 0
for location in data['features']:
    for file_type in ['epw', 'ddy']:
        match = re.search(r'href=[\'"]?([^\'" >]+)', location['properties'][file_type])
        if match:
            url = match.group(1)
            name = url[url.rfind('/') + 1:]
            count += 1
            print(count, ':', name, '\t')
            response = Request(url, headers={'User-Agent' : "Magic Browser"}) 
            with open(path_to_save + name, 'wb') as f:
                f.write(urlopen(response).read())
print('done!')