How do I fix a "url downloading" script that errors, "AttributeError: module 'urllib' has no attribute 'urlretrieve'"?

Question

I'm not too experienced in coding, so I need some help. There's a python script that I downloaded that's supposed to download images based on a custom URLthe script. Whenever I run it, nothing happens. I looked into it, and I got the error message "AttributeError: module 'urllib' has no attribute 'urlretrieve'" Why is this, and how can I make it work?

I've tried looking around for this problem, but nothing has been as specific as I need it.

Answer 1

The error message you're encountering, AttributeError: module 'urllib' has no attribute 'urlretrieve', suggests that there's a problem with the way the script is attempting to use the urllib module. Specifically, it seems like the script is trying to use the urlretrieve function from urllib, but it's not finding it.

This could be due to a version mismatch or a change in how Python libraries work. urlretrieve used to be a part of urllib in Python 2, but in Python 3, it was moved to urllib.request.

try these commands

Old import (Python 2)

import urllib

New import (Python 3)

import urllib.request

Old usage

urllib.urlretrieve(url, filename)

New usage

urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename)