Web Scraping

[Gonzalo V]

Explore url module and you need urlretrieve()

saludos,
desde un móvil.
El nov 12, 2016 12:23 p.m., "Veek M" <vek.m1234 at gmail.com> escribió:

> Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:07 pm, Veek M wrote:
> >
> >> 121sukha wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am new to python and I want to use web scraping to download songs
> >>> from website. how do I write code to check if the website has
> >>> uploaded a new song and have that song automatically be downloaded
> >>> onto my computer. I know how to use the requests.get() module but i
> >>> am more interested in knowing how to download and save every new
> >>> song that the website uploads on the site. I would extremely
> >>> appreciate the help from anyone. Thanks!
> >>
> >> What you're doing is illegal
> >
> > Really? Everywhere in the world? And you're sure of this because
> > you're a lawyer?
>
> 'probably illegal' (i did mentally assume he's from India - the nick is
> very indianish and since I am Indian and noticed many badly formatted
> posts I felt obliged to help out)
>
> > Even if the website uses public domain or freely licenced songs?
> >
> > Even if the downloads count as fair use, time-shifting or
> > format-shifting?
>
> ah true
>
> >> but Youtube/websites have a lot of stuff up
> >> that's easily accessible - the moral issue seems ambiguous especially
> >> if you use adblocker..
> >
> > Doesn't seem ambiguous to me.
>
> > Or are you one of those people who think that you are a thief for
> > leaving the room when ads are playing on TV?
> >
> > https://yro.slashdot.org/story/02/05/02/0550214/turner-
> ceo-pvr-users-are-thieves
>
> yep as in.. do the networks have a right to tempt me
>
> >
> > Downloading may, or may not, violate the terms of use of the website.
> > But you *literally* cannot watch the video without downloading it: in
> > order for the video to play in your browser, it must be downloaded.
> > That's the end of the story. "Streaming video" is just another way of
> > saying "downloading video, where the video is deleted afterwards".
> >
> > (Actually, streaming video is just another way of saying "lots of
> > pauses, stuttering, dropped frames and a really awful user
> > experience".)
>
> also true, but gramophone records were an inconvenience we put up with
> lacking a better solution.. so an inconvenience strictly speaking
> doesn't imply you can break the law.. however, is it fair to tempt us
> with these delights.. hence my moral confusion..
>
> Anyway.. yes I agree that I have no business telling people off (and
> that was not my intention) it was a succinct warning of the dangers..
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