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| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| import urllib2 | |
| from datetime import date | |
| def main(): | |
| today = date.today() | |
| suffix = getDateSuffix(today) | |
| fdate = "%s %s%s %s" % (today.strftime('%b'),today.strftime('%d').lstrip('0'),suffix,today.strftime('%Y')) | |
| print("Downloading Daily Nation...") | |
| download_file("http://downloads.realviewtechnologies.com/Nation Media/Daily Nation/%s.pdf" % fdate) | |
| print("Downloading Business Daily...") | |
| download_file("http://downloads.realviewtechnologies.com/Nation Media/Business Daily/%s.pdf" % fdate) | |
| print("Done.") | |
| def getDateSuffix(t): | |
| if 4 <= t.day <= 20 or 24 <= t.day <= 30: | |
| return "th" | |
| else: | |
| return ["st", "nd", "rd"][t.day % 10 - 1] | |
| def download_file(download_url): | |
| file_name ="-".join(download_url.split('/')[-2:]) | |
| url = download_url.replace(" ","%20") | |
| try: | |
| u = urllib2.urlopen(url) | |
| f = open(file_name, 'wb') | |
| meta = u.info() | |
| file_size = int(meta.getheaders("Content-Length")[0]) | |
| print "Downloading: %s Bytes: %s" % (file_name, 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 = r"%10d [%3.2f%%]" % (file_size_dl, file_size_dl * 100. / file_size) | |
| status = status + chr(8)*(len(status)+1) | |
| print status, | |
| f.close() | |
| print("Download Complete") | |
| except Exception, err: | |
| print("Error Downloading File", err) | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| main() |
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