Tarfile Can't Open Tgz

I am trying to download tgz file from this website: https://plg.uwaterloo.ca/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/gvcormac/foo07 here is my script: import os from six.moves import urllib import tarfile

Solution 1:

You can add additional parameters to tarfile.open. You need to set the mode to 'r:gz'.

tarfile.open(path, 'r:gz')

Working example after Accept Agreement:

import tarfile

import requests

URL = 'https://plg.uwaterloo.ca/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/gvcormac/trec07p.tgz'
FILE = '/home/blake/Downloads/trec07p.tgz'

resp = requests.get(URL, stream=True)
resp.raise_for_status()

withopen(FILE, 'wb') as out_file:
    for line in resp.iter_content(chunk_size=1024*4, decode_unicode=False):
        out_file.write(line)


f = tarfile.open(FILE, 'r:gz')
print(f.getnames())

f.close()

Output:

['trec07p/data/inmail.35059',
 'trec07p/data/inmail.34430',
 'trec07p/data/inmail.45722',
 ..
 ..]