title: Save a large file using the Python requests library
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13137817/how-to-download-image-using-requests">How to download image using requests</a>  </p>
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  <p>I know that fetching a url is as simple as <code>requests.get</code> and I can get at the raw response body and save it to a file, but for large files, is there a way to stream directly to a file? Like if I'm downloading a movie with it or something?</p>