[FIXED] How to use progressbar module with urlretrieve

Issue

My pyhton3 script downloads a number of images over the internet using urlretrieve, and I'd like to add a progressbar with a completed percentage and download speed for each download.

The progressbar module seems like a good solution, but although I've looked through their examples, and example4 seems like the right thing, I still can't understand how to wrap it around the urlretrieve.

I guess I should add a third parameter:

urllib.request.urlretrieve('img_url', 'img_filename', some_progressbar_based_reporthook)

But how do I properly define it?

Solution

I think a better solution is to create a class that has all the needed state

import progressbar

class MyProgressBar():
    def __init__(self):
        self.pbar = None

    def __call__(self, block_num, block_size, total_size):
        if not self.pbar:
            self.pbar=progressbar.ProgressBar(maxval=total_size)
            self.pbar.start()

        downloaded = block_num * block_size
        if downloaded < total_size:
            self.pbar.update(downloaded)
        else:
            self.pbar.finish()

and call :

urllib.request.urlretrieve('img_url', 'img_filename', MyProgressBar())

Answered By - George C