Download a file with Python requests

http_download.py

import requests  # pip install requests
# Adapted from answer at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16694907/download-large-file-in-python-with-requests

def download(url, filepath):
    with requests.get(url, stream=True) as response:
        response.raise_for_status()
        with open(filepath, 'wb') as output_file:
            for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8192): 
                # If you have chunk encoded response, then uncomment
                # the `if` statement and set chunk_size parameter to `None`.
                # if chunk:
                output_file.write(chunk)