Python example to download webpage

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Created at Feb 26, 2024 01:50:24
Updated at May 15, 2024 14:22:02 
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You might have wondered how to download a webpage using Python. It's actually quite simple! With the help of the requests library, you can easily fetch the content of any webpage and use it however you like. Let's walk through a straightforward example together.

You can download a webpage in Python using the requests library. Here's a simple example:

import requests

def download_webpage(url):
    try:
        response = requests.get(url)
        # Check if request was successful (status code 200)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            return response.text
        else:
            print(f"Failed to download webpage. Status code: {response.status_code}")
            return None
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
        return None

# Example usage:
url = "https://www.example.com"
webpage_content = download_webpage(url)
if webpage_content:
    print(webpage_content)

Make sure to install the requests library if you haven't already:

pip install requests

This script defines a function download_webpage that takes a URL as input and returns the webpage content as a string if the download is successful.

Downloading a webpage using Python is a simple task thanks to the requests library. With just a few lines of code, you can fetch the content of any webpage and use it for your own purposes. So go ahead, give it a try, and start exploring the vast world of web scraping with Python!

"Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out." - Chris Pine



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