#Just a try using the thread modules. import urllib as ul import bs4 as bs import urlparse as up import re as re import os.path as op import Queue as que import time import threading pat = re.compile('.*[\d]{4,7}.*') count=0 class dldfile(threading.Thread): def __init__(self,qu1): threading.Thread.__init__(self) self.qu1=qu1 self.ad='download/1/' def run(self): try: url,filename=self.qu1.get() url =url+self.ad #comment this line in case need to download whole web page instead of recipe ONLY... ul.urlretrieve(url,filename) global count except: print " RE-TRYING ", count= count - 1 self.qu1.put((url,filename)) self.run() finally: count= count +1 print str(count)+"("+str( threading.activeCount()) +")",filename self.qu1.task_done() class dload(threading.Thread ): def __init__(self,qu,url = "http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/?page=" ): threading.Thread.__init__(self) self.url= url self.q =que.Queue() self.qu=qu def run(self): ind=self.qu.get() url=self.url+str(ind) soup =bs.BeautifulSoup(''.join( ul.urlopen(url).readlines() )) bu = up.urlsplit(self.url) print 'started with the ' ,str(url).split('/')[-1], for i in soup.find_all(attrs = { "class" : "recipe-title"}): sp = up.urlsplit(i.a.get('href')) path = sp.path print path if re.search(pat, path): path = bu.scheme+'://'+bu.netloc+path filename = str(path).split('/')[-2] filename = op.join(op.abspath(op.curdir),filename+'.py') # recipe will be stored in given location # filename = op.join(op.abspath(op.curdir),filename+'.html') #uncomment the above line if downloading the web page for teh recipe print path self.q.put((path,filename)) self.fetch_data() time.sleep(1) self.qu.task_done() self.q.join() print 'done with the ' ,str(url).split('/')[-1], def fetch_data(self): Que1 = que.Queue() minitask =10 while not self.q.empty(): for i in range(minitask): x = dldfile(Que1) x.setDaemon(True) x.start() for j in range(minitask): Que1.put(self.q.get()) Que1.join() del x if __name__ =='__main__': task=5 Que = que.Queue() for k in range(1,190,task): # no. of pages included under the python tag. 188 is current count and 3700+ python recipes print "\n PAGE # : {0} \t \nDeploying Fresh threads\n".format(k) for i in range(task): t = dload(Que) t.start() for j in range(task): Que.put(k+j) Que.join() Que.queue.clear() del t print "DONE\n" time.sleep(2) del Que print "Our buisness finished"