How can I use Python to download a directory from a URL? or What's the best way to download a directo

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Yo, I had the same issue last week! The easiest way I found was using `wget` with Python’s `subprocess`.

```python
import subprocess
subprocess.run(["wget", "-r", "-np", "-nH", "your_url_here"])
```

The `-r` makes it recursive, `-np` stops it from crawling parent dirs, and `-nH` skips hostname dirs. Super handy for python download a directory from URL.

Downside? You gotta have `wget` installed. But it’s way cleaner than hacking something with `requests`.

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