Tag Archives: wget

How to prevent wget from creating duplicates

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Thomas Cokelaer

wget is used to download file from internet. For instance: wget http://url/test.csvwget http://url/test.csv So far so good but two things may happen. First, you may interrupt the download. Second, you may load the file again. Sometimes, files are huge and … Continue reading →

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python: certificate verified failed

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Thomas Cokelaer

I was just trying to download a file on github (raw) using wget package (or curl) under Python2.7.11 and Windows 7. I got a certificate error as follows: IOError: [Errno socket error] [ SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590)IOError: [Errno … Continue reading →

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