With the following streaming code, the Python memory usage is restricted regardless of the size of the downloaded file: def download_file(url): local_filename = url.split(“https://stackoverflow.com/”)[-1] # NOTE the stream=True parameter below with requests.get(url, stream=True) as r: r.raise_for_status() with open(local_filename, ‘wb’) as f: for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=8192): # If you have chunk encoded response uncomment if # … Read more
You can trigger a download with the HTML5 download attribute. <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11620698/path_to_file” download=”proposed_file_name”>Download</a> Where: path_to_file is a path that resolves to an URL on the same origin. That means the page and the file must share the same domain, subdomain, protocol (HTTP vs. HTTPS), and port (if specified). Exceptions are blob: and data: (which always … Read more
You can create an HTTP GET request and pipe its response into a writable file stream: const http = require(‘http’); // or ‘https’ for https:// URLs const fs = require(‘fs’); const file = fs.createWriteStream(“file.jpg”); const request = http.get(“http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/J—aiyznGQ/mqdefault.jpg”, function(response) { response.pipe(file); // after download completed close filestream file.on(“finish”, () => { file.close(); console.log(“Download Completed”); }); … Read more
Use the -O file option. E.g. wget google.com … 16:07:52 (538.47 MB/s) – `index.html’ saved [10728] vs. wget -O foo.html google.com … 16:08:00 (1.57 MB/s) – `foo.html’ saved [10728]
Go to the file you want to download. Click it to view the contents within the GitHub UI. In the top right, right click the Raw button. Save as…
From this brilliant blog post… https://blog.josephscott.org/2011/10/14/timing-details-with-curl/ cURL supports formatted output for the details of the request (see the cURL manpage for details, under -w, –write-out <format>). For our purposes we’ll focus just on the timing details that are provided. Times below are in seconds. Create a new file, curl-format.txt, and paste in: time_namelookup: %{time_namelookup}s\n time_connect: … Read more
There are many ways to download files. Following I will post most common ways; it is up to you to decide which method is better for your app. Use AsyncTask and show the download progress in a dialog ============================================================= This method will allow you to execute some background processes and update the UI at the … Read more