I am trying to make a script that downloads a file, but it keeps getting the error urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: c> after I do something like download.py https://i.sstatic.net/tFuiz.png Here is my script:
import os
import wget
import sys
url = sys.argv[0]
directory = os.path.expanduser('~')
downloadFolderPath = r"%s\Downloads" % directory
os.chdir(downloadFolderPath)
url.replace(":", "%3A")
wget.download(url)
Is there any way I can fix this?
import os
import wget
import sys
url = sys.argv[1]
directory = os.path.expanduser('~')
downloadFolderPath = os.path.join(directory, "Downloads")
os.chdir(downloadFolderPath)
url.replace(":", "%3A")
wget.download(url)
The problem is that you are using the first argument as the url. argv[0] is the script name, not the url you pass as an argument. See: sys.argv documentation:
The list of command line arguments passed to a Python script. argv[0] is the script name (it is operating system dependent whether this is a full pathname or not).
Most likely you are getting the error because you are using Windows and the first argument is the full pathname, e.g. c:\scripts\download.py or the like.
If you change it to sys.argv[1] and call the script with
python download.py https://i.sstatic.net/tFuiz.png
(replace download.py with the name of your script) then it should work.
Note: I have also changed downloadFolderPath. By using os.path.join() the script should work independently of the operating system. On Ubuntu for example your version would not work because of the backslash in the path.