getpage.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


int main(int argc, char** argv) 
{

	const char* wget_command = "wget ""%s"" -O ""%s""";
	char run_command[1000] = {0};
	
	if( argc != 3 ) 
	{
		printf("Call %s <url> <outputfile>\n", argv[0]);
		return EXIT_FAILURE;
	}

	int result = snprintf( run_command, 1000, wget_command, argv[1], argv[2] );

	if( result < 0 || result > 1000 )
	{
		perror("parameters too long");
	}

	system( run_command );
	

	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

getpage.py

#import the module needed
import urllib2
import sys

#make a request to the server, and place response in a variable
response = urllib2.urlopen(sys.argv[1])
#response object is a file like object

#read the data from the response into a string
html_string = response.read()

#write to output
with open(sys.argv[2], "w") as f:
	f.write(html_string)