Only download a part of the document using python requests

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What you want to use here is called Range HTTP Header.

See: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html (Specifically the bit on Range).

See also API Docs on Custom Headers

Example:

from requests import get


url = "http://download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip"
headers = {"Range": "bytes=0-100"}  # first 100 bytes

r = get(url, headers=headers)

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