Python 2/3的PabloG代码的改进版本:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import ( division, absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals )

import sys, os, tempfile, logging

if sys.version_info >= (3,):
    import urllib.request as urllib2
    import urllib.parse as urlparse
else:
    import urllib2
    import urlparse

def download_file(url, dest=None):
    """ 
    Download and save a file specified by url to dest directory,
    """
    u = urllib2.urlopen(url)

    scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
    filename = os.path.basename(path)
    if not filename:
        filename = 'downloaded.file'
    if dest:
        filename = os.path.join(dest, filename)

    with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
        meta = u.info()
        meta_func = meta.getheaders if hasattr(meta, 'getheaders') else meta.get_all
        meta_length = meta_func("Content-Length")
        file_size = None
        if meta_length:
            file_size = int(meta_length[0])
        print("Downloading: {0} Bytes: {1}".format(url, file_size))

        file_size_dl = 0
        block_sz = 8192
        while True:
            buffer = u.read(block_sz)
            if not buffer:
                break

            file_size_dl += len(buffer)
            f.write(buffer)

            status = "{0:16}".format(file_size_dl)
            if file_size:
                status += "   [{0:6.2f}%]".format(file_size_dl * 100 / file_size)
            status += chr(13)
            print(status, end="")
        print()

    return filename

if __name__ == "__main__":  # Only run if this file is called directly
    print("Testing with 10MB download")
    url = "http://download.thinkbroadband.com/10MB.zip"
    filename = download_file(url)
    print(filename)

为了这个目的，用纯Python编写了wget库。从2.0版开始，它就为urlretrieve注入了这些特性。

import urllib2
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3")
with open('test.mp3','wb') as output:
  output.write(mp3file.read())

open('test.mp3'，'wb')中的wb以二进制模式打开文件(并擦除任何现有文件)，以便您可以使用它保存数据而不仅仅是文本。

还有一个，使用urlretrieve:

import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlretrieve("http://www.example.com/songs/mp3.mp3", "mp3.mp3")

(对于Python 2使用import urllib和urllib.urlretrieve)

在python3中，可以使用urllib3和shutil库。 使用pip或pip3下载它们(取决于python3是否默认)

pip3 install urllib3 shutil

然后运行这段代码

import urllib.request
import shutil

url = "http://www.somewebsite.com/something.pdf"
output_file = "save_this_name.pdf"
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response, open(output_file, 'wb') as out_file:
    shutil.copyfileobj(response, out_file)

注意，您下载了urllib3，但在代码中使用了urllib

为了完整起见，还可以使用子流程包调用任何程序来检索文件。专用于检索文件的程序比Python函数(如urlretrieve)更强大。例如，wget可以递归下载目录(-R)，可以处理FTP、重定向、HTTP代理，可以避免重新下载现有文件(-nc)，而aria2可以进行多连接下载，这可能会加快下载速度。

import subprocess
subprocess.check_output(['wget', '-O', 'example_output_file.html', 'https://example.com'])

在Jupyter Notebook中，也可以直接使用!语法:

!wget -O example_output_file.html https://example.com