How to download a file using python in a ‘smarter’ way?

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Download scripts like that tend to push a header telling the user-agent what to name the file:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="the filename.ext"

If you can grab that header, you can get the proper filename.

There’s another thread that has a little bit of code to offer up for Content-Disposition-grabbing.

remotefile = urllib2.urlopen('http://example.com/somefile.zip')
remotefile.info()['Content-Disposition']

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