How to make Python code download a folder and unpack it into a directory?

Question

Python

There is this code:

import urllib.request
from getpass import getuser

print('ShelbyFM: radio station installation...')
url = 'http://d.zaix.ru/iTUp.mp3'  
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, 'C:\\Users\\{0}\\Documents\\Rockstar Games\\GTA V\\User Music\\Tes1122t.mp3'.format(getuser()))

How to make it download a folder from a Yandex disk (or other hosting), and unpack everything into the User Music folder?
I'm a teapot, please explain and show more specifically. Perhaps a different code is needed here. Thanks

Answer 1

The code you wrote asks for a specific file, not a folder.
If you just need to download a known list of files, even a large one, it's easier to take a ready-made program, for example, wget, feed this list as a text file as input, and wget will download everything itself.
If you do not know the list, then in order to download the contents of the folder, this content must be seen. And for this, you need to get a list of files through some specific api, then iterate through the list and form links like:
“path to the folder on the server” + “name of the next file“
And request these files in turn, or through a standard http request, or through the service api (depending on the service). Or, again, put the links into a text file and feed the list to wget.
In general, it is necessary to write a somewhat more complex program.
And what is the end goal?