Extract mp3 file links and download songs from Earthbound video game

download-earthbound-songs.py

import sys
import requests
import os
from urllib.parse import urlparse
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# page containing links to mp3's of songs from Earthbound
music_page_url = 'http://starmen.net/mother2/music/'
# container for mp3 links
mp3_links = []
# local directory to save content
local_dir = r'C:\output'

try:
    # request the url
    page = requests.get(music_page_url)
    # create beautiful soup object
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
    # find all anchor elements
    results = soup.find_all('a')
    # iterate over anchor elements
    for item in results:
        # if anchor tag contains '.mp3', add link to list
        if '.mp3' in item['href']:
            # need to combine base url with href to create full url path
            mp3_links.append('{}{}'.format(music_page_url, item['href']))
    # end for loop

    # iterate over links and download to local machine
    for url in mp3_links:
        # get properties of url
        the_link = urlparse(url)
        # get file name
        file_name = os.path.basename(the_link.path)
        # create output file name
        output_file = os.path.join(local_dir, file_name)
        # request file at URL
        response = requests.get(url)

        try:
            # write file to local machine
            with open(output_file, mode='wb') as localfile:
                localfile.write(response.content)
                print('downloaded "{}"'.format(file_name))
        except (Exception, EnvironmentError) as e:
            print('Error downloading "{}"'.format(file_name))
            continue
except (Exception, EnvironmentError) as e:
    tbE = sys.exc_info()[2]
    # print error message
    print("Failed at Line {}".format(tbE.tb_lineno))
    print("Error: {}".format(e))
finally:
    print('completed running script to download music files for Earthbound')
    print('check messages for any errors that may have occured')