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2008-10-08T05:05:12-07:00Trent Mickhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173505/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576530-download-a-url-with-a-console-progress-meter/
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Python
recipe 576530
by <a href="/recipes/users/4173505/">Trent Mick</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/commandline/">commandline</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/download/">download</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/url/">url</a>).
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<p>A little script/function to download a given URL with a console progress meter. Usage:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>python geturl.py <a href="http://example.com/downloads/bigfile.zip" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/downloads/bigfile.zip</a>
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<p>(This is from an <a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/319818.html">old post to python-list</a>.)</p>