Download a zip file from a URL using requests module in python

Question

when I access this website , my browser opens a box to download a zip file.

I am trying to download the zip file through a python script (I am a begginer in coding). I would like to automate the process of downloading a batch of similar links in the future, but I am testing with only one link for now. Here is my code:

import requests

url = 'https://sigef.incra.gov.br/geo/exportar/vertice/shp/454698fd-6dfa-49a1-8096-bd9bb57b62ca'
r = requests.get(url, verify=False, allow_redirects=True)

open('verticeshp454698fd-6dfa-49a1-8096-bd9bb57b62ca.zip', 'wb').write(r.content)

As an output I get a broken zip file, not the one i wanted. I also get the following message in the command prompt:

C:\Users\joaop\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py:979: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host 'sigef.incra.gov.br'. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings
  warnings.warn(

What steps am I missing here? Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

I got it working by adding / at the end of the url

import requests

# the `/` at the end is important
url = 'https://sigef.incra.gov.br/geo/exportar/vertice/shp/454698fd-6dfa-49a1-8096-bd9bb57b62ca/'

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2866.71 Safari/537.36", 
  }

r = requests.get(url, headers=headers, verify=False, allow_redirects=True)

# get the filename from the headers `454698fd-6dfa-49a1-8096-bd9bb57b62ca_vertice.zip`
filename = r.headers['Content-Disposition'].split("filename=")[-1]

with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
  f.write(r.content)

See it in action here .