can python be useful to open multiple tabs in a browser in one shot?
Question: I am looking for a faster way to do my task. i have 40000 file downloadable
urls. I would like to download them in local desktop is.now the thought is
currently what I am doing is placing the link on the browser and then download
them via a script.now what I am looking for is to place 10 urls in a chunk to
the address bar and get the 10 files to be downloaded at the same time.If it
possible hope overall time will be decreased.

Sorry I was late to give the code,here it is :

    
    
    def _download_file(url, filename):
        """
        Given a URL and a filename, this method will save a file locally to the»
        destination_directory path.
        """
        if not os.path.exists(destination_directory):
            print 'Directory [%s] does not exist, Creating directory...' % destination_directory
            os.makedirs(destination_directory)
        try:
            urllib.urlretrieve(url, os.path.join(destination_directory, filename))
            print 'Downloading File [%s]' % (filename)
        except:
            print 'Error Downloading File [%s]' % (filename)
    
    
    def _download_all(main_url):
        """
        Given a URL list, this method will download each file in the destination
        directory.
        """
    
        url_list = _create_url_list(main_url)
        for url in url_list:
            _download_file(url, _get_file_name(url))
    

Thanks,


Answer: Why use a browser? This seems like an [XY
problem](http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378).

To download files, I'd use a library like [requests](http://docs.python-
requests.org/) (or make a system call to `wget`).

Something like this:

    
    
    import requests
    
    def download_file_from_url(url, file_save_path):
        r = requests.get(url)
        if r.ok: # checks if the download succeeded
            with file(file_save_path, 'w') as f: 
               f.write(r.content)
            return True
        else:
            return r.status_code
    
    download_file_from_url('http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tech_support_cheat_sheet.png', 'new_image.png')
    # will download image and save to current directory as 'new_image.png'
    

You first have to install requests using whatever python package manager you
prefer e.g., `pip install requests`. You can also get fancier; e.g.,

