python-quran-mp3-downloader.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import re
import sys
import urllib.request

#Your sample url
sampleUrl = "https://quranicaudio.com/quran/5"
urlAddInfo = urllib.request.urlopen(sampleUrl)
data = urlAddInfo.read().decode('utf-8')

#Sample extensions we'll be looking for: pngs and pdfs
TARGET_EXTENSIONS = "(mp3|pdf)"
targetCompile = re.compile(TARGET_EXTENSIONS, re.UNICODE|re.MULTILINE)

#Let's get all the urls: match criteria{no spaces or " in a url}
urls = re.findall('(https?://[^\s"]+)', data, re.UNICODE|re.MULTILINE)

#We want these folks
extensionMatches = filter(lambda url: url and targetCompile.search(url), urls)

#The rest of the unmatched urls for which the scrapping can also be repeated.
nonExtMatches = filter(lambda url: url and not targetCompile.search(url), urls)


def fileDl(targetUrl):
  #Function to handle downloading of files.
  #Arg: url => a String
  #Output: Boolean to signify if file has been written to memory

  #Validation of the url assumed, for the sake of keeping the illustration short
  urlAddInfo = urllib.request.urlopen(targetUrl)
  data = urlAddInfo.read()
  fileNameSearch = re.search("([^\/\s]+)$", targetUrl) #Text right before the last slash '/'
  if not fileNameSearch:
     sys.stderr.write("Could not extract a filename from url '%s'\n"%(targetUrl))
     return False
  fileName = fileNameSearch.groups(1)[0]
  with open(fileName, "wb") as f:
    f.write(data)
    sys.stderr.write("Wrote %s to memory\n"%(fileName))
  return True

#Let's now download the matched files
dlResults = map(lambda fUrl: fileDl(fUrl), extensionMatches)
successfulDls = filter(lambda s: s, dlResults)
sys.stderr.write("Downloaded %d files from %s\n"%(len(list(successfulDls)), sampleUrl))

#You can organize the above code into a function to repeat the process for each of the
#other urls and in that way you can make a crawler.