Downloading a file with the requests module

Writing_a_request_response_to_file.py

import requests
import shutil
import json


# Writing a json response from an API to file
r = requests.get('http://api.domain.com')
with open('file.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(r.json(), f, indent=2)
    
# Writing a csv from a response to file
response = requests.get('http://www.football-data.co.uk/mmz4281/1718/E0.csv')  # Note this is a csv url (contains the file)
with open('file.csv', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(response.content)
    
# For a large file
response = requests.get('https://www.example.com', stream=True)
with open('file.csv', 'wb') as f:
    for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size): # the chunk size (int) is the size you want to save as e.g 2000
        f.write(chunk)
        
# For images
response = requests.get(settings.STATIC_MAP_URL.format(**data), stream=True)  # stream is true, so it does not download into memory first
if response.status_code == 200:
    with open(path, 'wb') as f:
         response.raw.decode_content = True
        shutil.copyfileobj(r.raw, f)   

# This could also be good for images
r = requests.get(settings.STATICMAP_URL.format(**data), stream=True)
if r.status_code == 200:
    with open(path, 'wb') as f:
        for chunk in r.iter_content(1024):
            f.write(chunk)