Hi everyone, I’m working on a small personal project to practice Python networking and file-handling techniques. The idea is to download media files from various publicly accessible URLs. For example, sometimes I test with short Instagram clips using an instagram downloader https://indown.io/en1 –style workflow, where the tool provides a direct media URL and I handle the download on my end. (Only for personal learning, not redistribution.)
I’m mainly trying to understand: Best practices for streaming large files in Python without loading them fully into memory. Whether requests with streamed chunks is still the recommended approach, or if there are newer libraries/tools better suited for this. Safe ways to validate file types, avoid partial downloads, and handle connection drops. Any tips for structuring the code so the download logic stays clean and extensible. If anyone has suggestions, patterns, or examples from similar projects, I’d appreciate the guidance. Thanks! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
