downloading a CSV

Joel Goldstick joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 16:03:23 EST 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:05 PM, noydb <jenn.duerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks!  That was pretty easy.
>
> import urllib.request
> url = '
> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/all_month.csv'
> urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, csv_file)
> csv_file = r"C:\Temp\earthquakeAll_last30days.csv"
> urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, csv_file)
>
> I do want to use python -- there's much more I need to do with the file
> after downloading.
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You might look at the Requests library.  Its third party, but easier to
understand and use than urllib

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