Download Kenyan Daily Nation and Business Daily

download_paper.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib2
from datetime import date

def main():
	today = date.today()
	suffix = getDateSuffix(today)
	fdate = "%s %s%s %s" % (today.strftime('%b'),today.strftime('%d').lstrip('0'),suffix,today.strftime('%Y'))
	print("Downloading Daily Nation...")
	download_file("http://downloads.realviewtechnologies.com/Nation Media/Daily Nation/%s.pdf" % fdate)
	print("Downloading Business Daily...")
	download_file("http://downloads.realviewtechnologies.com/Nation Media/Business Daily/%s.pdf" % fdate)
	print("Done.")


def getDateSuffix(t):
	if 4 <= t.day <= 20 or 24 <= t.day <= 30:
	    return "th"
	else:
	    return ["st", "nd", "rd"][t.day % 10 - 1]


def download_file(download_url):
	file_name ="-".join(download_url.split('/')[-2:])
	url = download_url.replace(" ","%20")
	try:
		u = urllib2.urlopen(url)
		f = open(file_name, 'wb')
		meta = u.info()
		file_size = int(meta.getheaders("Content-Length")[0])
		print "Downloading: %s Bytes: %s" % (file_name, file_size)

		file_size_dl = 0
		block_sz = 8192
		while True:
		    buffer = u.read(block_sz)
		    if not buffer:
		        break

		    file_size_dl += len(buffer)
		    f.write(buffer)
		    status = r"%10d  [%3.2f%%]" % (file_size_dl, file_size_dl * 100. / file_size)
		    status = status + chr(8)*(len(status)+1)
		    print status,

		f.close()
		print("Download Complete")
	except Exception, err:
		print("Error Downloading File", err)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

cool stuff...

Good thing, you took the initiative.
Happy coding 😄

how do i download? anyone?

How do i make use of these codes ?

Downloading Daily Nation...
('Error Downloading File', HTTPError())
Downloading Business Daily...
('Error Downloading File', HTTPError())
Done.

how does this work