How to download pdf from a link in python

# This is kind-of based off of this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5974595/download-all-the-linksrelated-documents-on-a-webpage-using-pythonimportcookielibimporturllib2importmechanizefromtimeimportsleepimportosimportcgi# A routine to download a file from a link, by simulating a click on itdefdownloadlink(linkUrl, referer):r=br.click_link(linkUrl)r.add_header("Referer", referer) # add a referer header, just in caseresponse=br.open(r)#get filename from the response headers if possiblecdheader=response.info().getheader('Content-Disposition')ifcdheader:value, params=cgi.parse_header(cdheader)filename=params["filename"]else:# if not use the link's basenamefilename=os.path.basename(linkUrl.url)f=open(filename, "w") #TODO: perhaps ensure that file doesn't already exist?f.write(response.read()) # write the response content to diskprintfilename," has been downloaded"br.back()# Make a Browser (think of this as chrome or firefox etc)br=mechanize.Browser()# Enable cookie support for urllib2 cookiejar=cookielib.LWPCookieJar() br.set_cookiejar( cookiejar ) # Broser options br.set_handle_equiv( True ) br.set_handle_gzip( True ) br.set_handle_redirect( True ) br.set_handle_referer( True ) br.set_handle_robots( False ) br.set_handle_refresh( mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1 ) br.addheaders= [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')] # masquerade as a real browser. this is not nice to do though.# Open your sitemypageUrl='http://my.url.com/page'br.open(mypageUrl)print"Get all PDF links\n"filetypes=["pdf", "PDF"] # pattern matching for links, can add more kinds heremyfiles=[]forlinbr.links():#check if this link has the file extension or text we wantmyfiles.extend([lfortinfiletypesiftinl.urlortinl.text])forlinmyfiles:# for index, l in zip(range(100), myfiles): # <--- uncomment this line (and coment the one above) to download 100 links.#sleep(1) # uncomment to throttle downloads, so you dont hammer the sitedownloadlink(l, mypageUrl)