Script to download images in parallel

parallel-downloader.py

import requests
from pathlib import Path
import multiprocessing

#read the download file
with open('./download_links.txt','r') as fhandle:
	files = fhandle.readlines()

def downloader(url):
	img_name = Path(url).name.rstrip('\n')
	print('downloading '+ img_name, end=" # ")
	response = requests.get(url.rstrip('\n'))
	print(" writing stream ", end=" # ")
	with open('./' + img_name,"wb") as img_handle:
		img_handle.write(response.content)
	print("done")
	return (url, "done")

#print banner
print("============== DOWNLOADING HURRICANE IRMA DATA =================")
print("Number of images: " + str(len(files)))
print()

#download in parallel
if __name__ == '__main__':
	pool = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=7)
	output = pool.map(downloader, files)