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Download and extract a ZIP file in Python
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download_and_unzip.py
from urllib.request import urlopen
from io import BytesIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
def download_and_unzip(url, extract_to='.'):
http_response = urlopen(url)
zipfile = ZipFile(BytesIO(http_response.read()))
zipfile.extractall(path=extract_to)
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BradKML commented May 2, 2023

  1. Others have status code checks https://gist.github.com/niftycode/a747648db1b79396b8e4814946a4dba2
  2. There is a library called dload might be useful for others (albiet a bit buggy) https://github.com/x011/dload x011/dload#4

But here is a question: how do you deal with a zip file with multiple pieces of content inside?

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