download gitlab archive

download_gitlab_archive.py

#!/bin/env python3

import urllib, shutil, json, sys
import urllib.request
import urllib.parse

def dl_gitlab_archive(url, private_token, out_filename):
	try:
		fields = urllib.parse.urlencode({
			'private_token': private_token
		})
		with urllib.request.urlopen(url+'?'+fields) as response, open(out_filename, 'wb') as fout:
			shutil.copyfileobj(response, fout)
	except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
		print(e)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	print(sys.argv)
	dl_gitlab_archive(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3])