run download link and unzip to a folder in python with a url that stores a variable

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How could a script in python be made that, through a value entered by the user through the console in an input, is replaced in a specific url of a repository to be able to download a .zip and when it is downloaded automatically, a folder is created where it is entered and would unpack, for example:

Given two random github urls:

https://github.com/exercism/python/archive/refs/heads/bobahop-patch-1.zip

https://github.com/exercism/python/archive/refs/heads/bobahop-patch-2.zip

The user could enter "patch-1" or "patch-2" by console and this value would be replaced in the url and in turn the link would be executed and the .zip it contains would be downloaded to the repository. Simultaneously, a folder with any name would be created (the value entered by the user in the console, for example) and the downloaded .zip would be moved to that folder and once there it would be decompressed.

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1 Answers

Python has

  • standard module urllib to get/download data from web page urllib.request.urlretrieve()
  • standard moduel os to create folder os.makedirs() and move/rename file os.rename()
  • standard module zipfile to compress/uncompress .zip file
import os
import urllib.request
import zipfile

#user_input = input("What to download: ")
user_input = 'patch-1'

pattern = 'https://github.com/exercism/python/archive/refs/heads/bobahop-{}.zip'
url = pattern.format(user_input)

filename = f"{user_input}.zip"

print('From:', url)
print('  To:', filename)

urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename)

# ---

destination_folder = user_input
print('Create folder:', destination_folder)

os.makedirs(destination_folder, exist_ok=True)

# ---

print('Uncompress')

zip_file = zipfile.ZipFile(filename)
zip_file.extractall(destination_folder)

# ---

print("Move .zip to folder")

old_name = filename
new_name = os.path.join(destination_folder, filename)
os.rename(old_name, new_name)
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