Fetchcode

It is a library to reliably fetch code via HTTP, FTP and version control systems.

Installation

Clone the repo using

git clone https://github.com/nexB/fetchcode

Then install all the requirements using

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running test suite

To run test suite

python3 -m pytest

Usage of API to fetch HTTP/S and FTP URLs

fromfetchcodeimportfetchurl='A Http or FTP URL'# This returns a response object which has attributes# 'content_type' content type of the file# 'location' the absolute location of the files that was fetched# 'scheme' scheme of the URL# 'size' size of the retrieved content in bytes# 'url' fetched URLresp=fetch(url=url)