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1"""
2Module used to download a given webpage with several options related to the
3wikimedia API
4"""
5
6import urllib.request
7# For system proxy
8import os
9
10
11class Downloader():
12 """Class used to download a given webpage considering system proxy"""
13 def __init__(self):
14 self.proxy_address = os.environ.get("HTTP_Proxy")
15 self.proxy = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({'http': self.proxy_address})
16 self.opener = urllib.request.build_opener(self.proxy)
17 urllib.request.install_opener(self.opener)
18
19 def download(self, url):
20 """ Download the given URL and return the source code """
21 return urllib.request.urlopen(url).read().decode("utf8")
22
23 def download_in_file(self, url, output_file_path):
24 """ Download the given URL and write to the given file """
25 with open(output_file_path, "w") as output_file:
26 output_file.write(self.download(url))