Using wget with subprocess

Question

Hi! I'm trying to use wget with subprocess.

my attempts worked until I tried to download the page to a specified directory with this code:

url = 'google.com'
location = '/home/patrick/downloads'
args = ['wget', 'r', 'l 1' 'p' 'P %s' % location, url]

output = Popen(args, stdout=PIPE)

if I run this code in /home/patrick I get index.html in /home/patrick and not in /home/patrick/downloads.

Can you help me?

Thanks ;)

Answer 1

You need to have hyphens and location should be just another argument:

args = ['wget', '-r', '-l', '1', '-p', '-P', location, url]

Answer 2

Edit: popen from os intends to replace os.popen module. Hence, using os.popen is not recommended

Initially I thought it was popen from os.

If you are using popen from os

#wget 'http://google.com/' -r -l 1 -p -P /Users/abhinay/Downloads

from os import popen

url = 'google.com'
location = '/Users/abhinay/Downloads'
args = ['wget %s', '-r', '-l 1', '-p', '-P %s' % location, url]

output = popen(' '.join(args))

and using Popen from subprocess

#wget 'http://google.com/' -r -l 1 -p -P Downloads/google

from subprocess import Popen

url = 'google.com'
location = '/Users/abhinay/Downloads'
#as suggested by @SilentGhost the `location` and `url` should be separate argument
args = ['wget', '-r', '-l', '1', '-p', '-P', location, url]

output = Popen(args, stdout=PIPE)

Let me know if I'm missing something.

Thx!