see here: Python progress bar and downloads
i think the code would be something like this, it should show the average speed since start as bytes per second:
import requests
import sys
import time
def downloadFile(url, directory) :
localFilename = url.split("https://stackoverflow.com/")[-1]
with open(directory + "https://stackoverflow.com/" + localFilename, 'wb') as f:
start = time.clock()
r = requests.get(url, stream=True)
total_length = r.headers.get('content-length')
dl = 0
if total_length is None: # no content length header
f.write(r.content)
else:
for chunk in r.iter_content(1024):
dl += len(chunk)
f.write(chunk)
done = int(50 * dl / total_length)
sys.stdout.write("\r[%s%s] %s bps" % ('=' * done, ' ' * (50-done), dl//(time.clock() - start)))
print ''
return (time.clock() - start)
def main() :
if len(sys.argv) > 1 :
url = sys.argv[1]
else :
url = raw_input("Enter the URL : ")
directory = raw_input("Where would you want to save the file ?")
time_elapsed = downloadFile(url, directory)
print "Download complete..."
print "Time Elapsed: " + time_elapsed
if __name__ == "__main__" :
main()