{"id":2990,"date":"2022-09-03T11:39:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edopedia.com\/blog\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2022-09-03T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:39:05","slug":"python-download-pdf-from-url-using-beautifulsoup4-and-requests-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edopedia.com\/blog\/python-download-pdf-from-url-using-beautifulsoup4-and-requests-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Python Download PDF From URL Using BeautifulSoup4 and Requests Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this tutorial, I will teach you <strong>how to download PDF files from URLs using Python<\/strong> programming language. The complete <strong>script to download pdfs from website<\/strong> is given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will make use of <strong>Beautiful Soup 4<\/strong> and <strong>Requests<\/strong> libraries to build the functionality of downloading PDF files from URLs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Python Download PDF From URL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Install Dependencies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-codemirror-blocks-code-block code-block\"><pre class=\"CodeMirror\" data-setting=\"{&quot;showPanel&quot;:true,&quot;languageLabel&quot;:&quot;language&quot;,&quot;fullScreenButton&quot;:true,&quot;copyButton&quot;:true,&quot;mode&quot;:&quot;shell&quot;,&quot;mime&quot;:&quot;text\/x-sh&quot;,&quot;theme&quot;:&quot;material&quot;,&quot;lineNumbers&quot;:true,&quot;styleActiveLine&quot;:true,&quot;lineWrapping&quot;:false,&quot;readOnly&quot;:true,&quot;fileName&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;Shell&quot;,&quot;maxHeight&quot;:&quot;400px&quot;,&quot;modeName&quot;:&quot;shell&quot;}\">pip install requests<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-codemirror-blocks-code-block code-block\"><pre class=\"CodeMirror\" data-setting=\"{&quot;showPanel&quot;:true,&quot;languageLabel&quot;:&quot;language&quot;,&quot;fullScreenButton&quot;:true,&quot;copyButton&quot;:true,&quot;mode&quot;:&quot;shell&quot;,&quot;mime&quot;:&quot;text\/x-sh&quot;,&quot;theme&quot;:&quot;material&quot;,&quot;lineNumbers&quot;:true,&quot;styleActiveLine&quot;:true,&quot;lineWrapping&quot;:false,&quot;readOnly&quot;:true,&quot;fileName&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;Shell&quot;,&quot;maxHeight&quot;:&quot;400px&quot;,&quot;modeName&quot;:&quot;shell&quot;}\">pip install bs4<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">code.py<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-codemirror-blocks-code-block code-block\"><pre class=\"CodeMirror\" data-setting=\"{&quot;showPanel&quot;:true,&quot;languageLabel&quot;:&quot;language&quot;,&quot;fullScreenButton&quot;:true,&quot;copyButton&quot;:true,&quot;mode&quot;:&quot;python&quot;,&quot;mime&quot;:&quot;text\/x-python&quot;,&quot;theme&quot;:&quot;material&quot;,&quot;lineNumbers&quot;:true,&quot;styleActiveLine&quot;:true,&quot;lineWrapping&quot;:false,&quot;readOnly&quot;:true,&quot;fileName&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;Python&quot;,&quot;maxHeight&quot;:&quot;400px&quot;,&quot;modeName&quot;:&quot;python&quot;}\"># Import libraries \nimport requests \nfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup \n\n# URL from which pdfs to be downloaded \nurl = &quot;https:\/\/nanonets.com\/blog\/deep-learning-ocr\/&quot;\n\n# Requests URL and get response object \nresponse = requests.get(url) \n\n# Parse text obtained \nsoup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser') \n\n# Find all hyperlinks present on webpage \nlinks = soup.find_all('a') \n\ni = 0\n\n# From all links check for pdf link and \n# if present download file \nfor link in links: \n    if ('.pdf' in link.get('href', [])): \n        i += 1\n        print(&quot;Downloading file: &quot;, i) \n\n        # Get response object for link \n        response = requests.get(link.get('href')) \n\n        # Write content in pdf file \n        pdf = open(&quot;pdf&quot;+str(i)+&quot;.pdf&quot;, 'wb') \n        pdf.write(response.content) \n        pdf.close() \n        print(&quot;File &quot;, i, &quot; downloaded&quot;) \n\nprint(&quot;All PDF files downloaded&quot;)<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Run the Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-codemirror-blocks-code-block code-block\"><pre class=\"CodeMirror\" data-setting=\"{&quot;showPanel&quot;:true,&quot;languageLabel&quot;:&quot;language&quot;,&quot;fullScreenButton&quot;:true,&quot;copyButton&quot;:true,&quot;mode&quot;:&quot;htmlmixed&quot;,&quot;mime&quot;:&quot;text\/html&quot;,&quot;theme&quot;:&quot;material&quot;,&quot;lineNumbers&quot;:true,&quot;styleActiveLine&quot;:true,&quot;lineWrapping&quot;:false,&quot;readOnly&quot;:true,&quot;fileName&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;HTML&quot;,&quot;maxHeight&quot;:&quot;400px&quot;,&quot;modeName&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}\">python code.py<\/pre><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial, I will teach you how to download PDF files from URLs using Python programming language. 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