Downloading file from redirection link python

Question

I am trying to make a simple program that will help with the confusing part of rooting.

I need to download the file from tiny.cc/latestmagisk

I am using this python code

import request
url = tiny.cc/latestmagisk

r = request.get(url)
r.content

The content it returns is the usual 403 Forbidden for nginx

I need this to work with the shortened URL is there anyway to make that happen?

Answer 1

Contrary to the other answer, you really should use requests for this as requests has better support for redirects.

For getting a page through a redirect from requests:

r=requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)

For downloading files through redirects:

r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True, stream=True)
with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
    for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=1024): 
        if chunk: f.write(chunk)

However, in this case, either tiny.cc or XDA does not allow a simple requests.get; the 403 forbidden is likely due to the User-Agent or other intrinsic header as this method works well with bit.ly and other shortlink generators. You may need to fake headers.

Answer 2

its's not necessary to import request lib
all you need to do is import ssl, urllib and pass ssl._create_unverified_context() as context to the server while you're sendig a request!
your code should be look like this:

import ssl, urllib

certcontext = ssl._create_unverified_context()
f = open('image.jpg','wb') #creating placeholder

#creating image from url and saving it as `image.jpg`!
f.write(urllib.urlopen("https://i.stack.imgur.com/IKh7E.png", context=certcontext).read())

f.close()

note: it will save the image as image.jpg file ..