If you have resumed a file download or if this is important research data that you want to share with others. We need to be able to validate downloaded file sometimes. We don’t want to overwrite existing content this is instead of ‘wb’
How to display a simple command-line progress bar.How to create a simple download validator for transferring files/backing up data.How to approach resuming downloads of incomplete binary files.We will go through simple ways to do just that using the request package. These go beyond the basic use of the request package. When you get used to the requests python package, it can be useful in command line applications to consider ways of validating files, resuming incomplete get requests and using progress bars.
Learn how to use progress bars, resuming partially downloaded files and validating files in python