Python script for downloading pdf

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DavidZemens I won't call it a duplicate. The OP is concerned about his solution not working rather than finding a different one. Also cloudflare sites often restrict access based on user agent. If you open the file in a text editor you'll probably find html there instead of a pdf. So is there any way i can download files like that??

Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Try this. It works. Improve this answer. Fensa Saj Fensa Saj 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges.

Turns out this code does work. The PDF at the url in the code above happens to be corrupt. Pointing it to the PDF I wanted worked fine — gotube. Add a comment. You can also use wget to download pdfs via a link: import wget wget. You can't download the pdf content from the given url using requests or urllib. Because initially the given url was pointed to another web page after that only it loads the pdf. If you have doubt save the response as html instead of pdf.

Active Oldest Votes. The func function is used as callback in the fonction retrbinary It could be just def func content : f. Improve this answer. Thanks mate this was what i was looking for — Rakesh.

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