Downloader helper¶
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class
jsonstat.
Downloader
(cache_dir=u'./data', time_to_live=None)[source]¶ Helper class to download json stat files.
It has a very simple cache mechanism
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download
(url, filename=None, time_to_live=None)[source]¶ Download url from internet.
Store the downloaded content into <cache_dir>/file. If <cache_dir>/file exists, it returns content from disk
Parameters: - url – page to be downloaded
- filename – filename where to store the content of url, None if we want not store
- time_to_live – how many seconds to store file on disk, None use default time_to_live, 0 don’t use cached version if any
Returns: the content of url (str type)
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