Downloads quraan for a specified reciter from althkr.com (the script isn't by any means optimized, but it just works)

quran_downloader.py

import urllib.request
import sys
counter = 0


def main(start, end):
    """
    To get the list of reciters, visit this link http://althkr.com/Reciters.php
    Note that the folder will be downloaded in the current directory. Make sure you have space
    and that you can handle the clutter. I suggest running the script in an empty folder
    """
    
    global counter
    mod_start = max(start, end)
    mod_end = min(start, end)
    reciter_name = "Mohamed_Ayoub"

    # The range is reversed to download shorter surahs first
    for i in reversed(range(mod_start, mod_end + 1)):
        number = str(i).zfill(3)
        url = "http://www.archive.org/download/{}}/{}.mp3".format(
            reciter_name, number)

        print("Downloading #", number)
        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, "{}.mp3".format(number))
        print("Done...")
        counter = i



if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        main(110,114) # Start and end surah index (1-indexed)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print('Interrupted')
        # In case the program is stopped, save where it stopped
        f = open('terminated_at.txt', 'w')
        f.write(counter)
        f.close()
        sys.exit(0)