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Download Files from Internet with Progress Bar in Python

Download a file from the internet while displaying a text progress bar in the terminal.

urllib download progress bar
Python
import urllib.request
import sys

def download_with_progress(url, filename):
    """Download a file with a simple text progress bar."""
    def report_hook(block_count, block_size, total_size):
        downloaded = block_count * block_size
        if total_size > 0:
            percent = min(100, int(downloaded * 100 …
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