Currently, I'm using a
rather ugly way of downloading files in
my Python application by executing a "wget" process and extracting progress and speed information from wget's stderr output. Of course, this is ugly and it depends on many factors (did you know RedHat/Fedora's wget has a
different output format?
Ideally, I'd like to replace the current code with something completely Python-ish (using urllib2?). The ideal solution would:
- Be completely written in Python
- Download URLs to specified local file names
- Be threaded (or runnable in threads)
- Report current speed (e.g. 40kb/s) and progress (40% done)
- Cancelling in-progress downloads should be possible
- Optionally provide the "estimated time left"
- Handle URL redirections, HTTP authentication, etc..
Does anyone know of a (lightweight) library that does this or has anybody some code to share so that I don't have to start writing this thing from scratch? If not, some hints on how to best do these things would be very nice.
