How to Use Python to Curl a URL and Save the Output to a File?

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Your code looks good for python curl url to file! Just a heads-up, if you’re dealing with large files, you might wanna stream the response instead of loading it all into memory. Here’s how:

```python
import requests
url = "https://example.com"
try:
with requests.get(url, stream=True, timeout=5) as response:
response.raise_for_status()
with open("output.txt", "wb") as file:
for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8192):
file.write(chunk)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
```

This way, it won’t eat up all your RAM.

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