Does Python have any way of downloading an entire HTML page and its contents (images, css) to a local folder given a url. And updating local html file to pick content locally.
Does Python have any way of downloading an entire HTML page and its contents (images, css) to a local folder given a url. And updating local html file to pick content locally.
savePage bellow:.html and downloaded javascripts, css and images based on the tags script, link and img (tags_inner dict keys)._files.sys.stderrUses Python 3+ Requests, BeautifulSoup and other standard libraries.
The function savePage receives a url and pagepath where to save it.
import os, sys, re
import requests
from urllib.parse import urljoin
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def savePage(url, pagepath='page'):
def savenRename(soup, pagefolder, session, url, tag, inner):
if not os.path.exists(pagefolder): # create only once
os.mkdir(pagefolder)
for res in soup.findAll(tag): # images, css, etc..
if res.has_attr(inner): # check inner tag (file object) MUST exists
try:
filename, ext = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(res[inner])) # get name and extension
filename = re.sub('\W+', '', filename) + ext # clean special chars from name
fileurl = urljoin(url, res.get(inner))
filepath = os.path.join(pagefolder, filename)
# rename html ref so can move html and folder of files anywhere
res[inner] = os.path.join(os.path.basename(pagefolder), filename)
if not os.path.isfile(filepath): # was not downloaded
with open(filepath, 'wb') as file:
filebin = session.get(fileurl)
file.write(filebin.content)
except Exception as exc:
print(exc, file=sys.stderr)
session = requests.Session()
#... whatever other requests config you need here
response = session.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
path, _ = os.path.splitext(pagepath)
pagefolder = path+'_files' # page contents folder
tags_inner = {'img': 'src', 'link': 'href', 'script': 'src'} # tag&inner tags to grab
for tag, inner in tags_inner.items(): # saves resource files and rename refs
savenRename(soup, pagefolder, session, url, tag, inner)
with open(path+'.html', 'wb') as file: # saves modified html doc
file.write(soup.prettify('utf-8'))
Example saving google.com as google.html and contents on google_files folder. (current folder)
savePage('https://www.google.com', 'google')