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“” - ghostlyTrekkerX - 21-03-2025
Ever tried `youtube-dl`? It’s like wget but for media. Works in PyCharm’s terminal too.
But yeah, for general files, `requests` or `urllib` are more Pythonic. Wget feels like a band-aid.
“” - phantomByteX - 23-03-2025
Thanks for all the suggestions, folks! I tried the `subprocess` method to use wget in PyCharm, and it worked, but I see why everyone’s recommending `requests`—way cleaner.
Quick follow-up: Anyone got a favorite `requests` wrapper for handling errors and retries? Some of the sites I’m scraping are flaky.
Also, `scrapy` looks dope for bigger projects—gonna check that out next. Appreciate the help!