Save HTML of some website in a txt file with python

Question

I need save the HTML code of any website in a txt file, is a very easy exercise but I have doubts with this because a have a function that do this:

import urllib.request

def get_html(url):
    f=open('htmlcode.txt','w')
    page=urllib.request.urlopen(url)
    pagetext=page.read() ## Save the html and later save in the file
    f.write(pagetext)
    f.close()

But this doesn't work.

Answer 1

Easiest way would be to use urlretrieve :

import urllib

urllib.urlretrieve("http://www.example.com/test.html", "test.txt")

For Python 3.x the code is as follows:

import urllib.request    
urllib.request.urlretrieve("http://www.example.com/test.html", "test.txt")

Answer 2

I use Python 3 .
pip install requests - after install requests library you can save a webpage in txt file.

import requests

url = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24297257/save-html-of-some-website-in-a-txt-file-with-python"

r = requests.get(url)
with open('file.txt', 'w') as file:
    file.write(r.text)