how to download from http url (e.g. with webbrowser) to a specific path location?

Question

I want to give a specific path to save file downloaded from http url

the code below dumps the file to my Downloads directory.

import webbrowser

url = 'https://some_api_path&params=SOME_PARAMS&download=true'

webbrowser.open(url)

I need to control destiny path/filename of downloaded file (via chrome browser) in order to filter downloaded files based on params passed to api.

Answer 1

You can use module Requests

import requests
url = 'https://www.python.org/static/img/python-logo@2x.png'
myfile = requests.get(url)
open('./pythonlogo.png', 'wb').write(myfile.content)

Saved File "pythonlogo.png" to the current folder!