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EncodeTheCode/download_str_utf8.py

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download_str_utf8.py
# HLTV stats fetcher in UTF-8 encoding written by ETC (EncodeTheCode)
import urllib.request as u
user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0.2 Waterfox/49.0.2'
headers={'User-Agent':user_agent}
req=u.Request('http://www.hltv.org/ranking/teams/',None,headers)
response=u.urlopen(req)
data=response.read()
response.close()
page=data.decode('utf-8')
with open('content.txt','w') as f:f.write(page);f.close()
if f.closed==1:print("Stream closed.")
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