File download via Post form

Question

There is a website that has a list of files that I want to download. To ease the process I tried to write a script to do it for me. (Even though I can select multiple options at the same time, clicking Submit only downloads the first file) The webpages url, webpage/list.php, is different from the action in the form. I'm not sure about what the policy is on posting the actual url here. ``` ``` The script i have is this: ``` import urllib import urllib2 import shutil req = urllib2.Request('webpage/list.php') values = { 'data[]': 'downloadable_file1.tar'} req.add_data(urllib.urlencode(v…

Accepted Answer

You should look into using the 'requests' library: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

I believe this would be accomplished like this using the requests library:

```
data={'data[]':'downloadable_file1.tar'}
req = requests.post('webpage/data.php', data)
with open('file.data', 'wb') as file:
    file.write(req.content)
```

File download via Post form

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