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Simple download function with progress bar
# Requires clint (https://github.com/kennethreitz/clint) from the develop branch, because of the expected_size argument.
def download(url, to_file, chunk_size=8192):
r = requests.get(url)
size = int(r.headers['Content-Length'])
expected_size = size / chunk_size
with open(to_file, 'w') as f:
for chunk in progress.bar(r.iter_content(chunk_size=chunk_size), expected_size=expected_size):
f.write(chunk)
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awesome :)

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Thanks! It's my new wget! =P

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