How to download a file from the internet by its URL

Download a file from the internet

In [1]:

import urllib

In [2]:

url_to_download = 'http://real-chart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=AAPL'
save_as_file = 'aapl.csv'

In [3]:

urllib.urlretrieve(url_to_download, save_as_file)

Out[3]:

('aapl.csv', <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0x000000000A0C9EC8>)