I'm trying to use Python to download the HTML source code of a website but I'm receiving this error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Sergio.Tapia\Documents\NetBeansProjects\DICParser\src\WebDownload.py", line 3, in <module>
file = urllib.urlopen("http://www.python.org")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlopen'
I'm following the guide here: http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/HTML.html
import urllib
file = urllib.urlopen("http://www.python.org")
s = file.read()
f.close()
#I'm guessing this would output the html source code?
print(s)
I'm using Python 3.
A Python 2+3 compatible solution is:
import sys
if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
from urllib.request import urlopen
else:
# Not Python 3 - today, it is most likely to be Python 2
# But note that this might need an update when Python 4
# might be around one day
from urllib import urlopen
# Your code where you can use urlopen
with urlopen("http://www.python.org") as url:
s = url.read()
print(s)