How do I capture an mp3 stream with python

Question

What's the best way of capturing an mp3 stream coming off of http and saving it to disk with python?

Thus far I've tried

target = open(target_path, "w")
conn = urllib.urlopen(stream_url)
while True:
    target.write(conn.read(buf_size))

This gives me data but its garbled or wont play in mp3 players.

Answer 1

If you're on Windows, you might accidentally be doing CRLF conversions, corrupting the binary data. Try opening target in binary mode:

target = open(target_path, "wb")

Answer 2

@Adam Rosenfield You're quite right. That was a stupid mistake, but now it works. Thanks

Answer 3

The best way for this is:

urllib.urlretrieve(stream_url, target_path);