#!/usr/bin/env python import sys download_url = sys.argv[1] output_filename = sys.argv[2] if (sys.version_info > (3, 0)): import urllib.request urllib.request.urlretrieve(download_url, output_filename) else: import urllib2 response = urllib2.urlopen(download_url) with open(output_filename, "w") as output_file: output_file.write(response.read())