slackbuilds/network/urlgrabber

urlgrabber is a pure python package that drastically simplifies the
fetching of files. It is designed to be used in programs that need
common (but not necessarily simple) url-fetching features. It is
extremely simple to drop into an existing program and provides a clean
interface to protocol-independent file-access. Best of all, urlgrabber
takes care of all those pesky file-fetching details, and lets you
focus on whatever it is that your program is written to do!