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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU Library General Public License for more details.
#
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# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
# Copyright 2002-2006 Michael D. Stenner, Ryan Tomayko
# $Id: __init__.py,v 1.20 2006/09/22 00:58:55 mstenner Exp $
"""A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber.
Using urlgrabber, data can be fetched in three basic ways:
urlgrab(url) copy the file to the local filesystem
urlopen(url) open the remote file and return a file object
(like urllib2.urlopen)
urlread(url) return the contents of the file as a string
When using these functions (or methods), urlgrabber supports the
following features:
* identical behavior for http://, ftp://, and file:// urls
* http keepalive - faster downloads of many files by using
only a single connection
* byte ranges - fetch only a portion of the file
* reget - for a urlgrab, resume a partial download
* progress meters - the ability to report download progress
automatically, even when using urlopen!
* throttling - restrict bandwidth usage
* retries - automatically retry a download if it fails. The
number of retries and failure types are configurable.
* authenticated server access for http and ftp
* proxy support - support for authenticated http and ftp proxies
* mirror groups - treat a list of mirrors as a single source,
automatically switching mirrors if there is a failure.
"""
__version__ = '3.1.0'
__date__ = '2006/09/21'
__author__ = 'Michael D. Stenner <mstenner@linux.duke.edu>, ' \
'Ryan Tomayko <rtomayko@naeblis.cx>'
__url__ = 'http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/'
from grabber import urlgrab, urlopen, urlread
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