A Python 2+3 compatible solution is:

import sys

if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
    from urllib.request import urlopen
else:
    # Not Python 3 - today, it is most likely to be Python 2
    # But note that this might need an update when Python 4
    # might be around one day
    from urllib import urlopen


# Your code where you can use urlopen
with urlopen("") as url:
    s = url.read()

print(s)

import urllib.request as ur
s = ur.urlopen("")
sl = s.read()
print(sl)

In Python v3 the "urllib.request" is a module by itself, therefore "urllib" cannot be used here.

To get 'dataX = urllib.urlopen(url).read()' working in python3 (this would have been correct for python2) you must just change 2 little things.

1: The urllib statement itself (add the .request in the middle):

dataX = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()

2: The import statement preceding it (change from 'import urlib' to:

import urllib.request

And it should work in python3 :)

Change TWO lines:

import urllib.request #line1

#Replace
urllib.urlopen("")
#To
urllib.request.urlopen("") #line2

If You got ERROR 403: Forbidden Error exception try this:

siteurl = ""

req = urllib.request.Request(siteurl, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.100 Safari/537.36'})
pageHTML = urllib.request.urlopen(req).read()

I hope your problem resolved.

import urllib.request as ur

filehandler = ur.urlopen (')
for line in filehandler:
    print(line.strip())

For python 3, try something like this:

import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlretrieve(' "video_name.avi")

It will download the video to the current working directory

I got help from HERE

Solution for python3:

from urllib.request import urlopen

url = '
file = urlopen(url)
html = file.read()
print(html)

import urllib
import urllib.request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


with urllib.request.urlopen("") as url:
    s = url.read()
    print(s)
soup = BeautifulSoup(s, "html.parser")
all_tag_a = soup.find_all("a", limit=10)

for links in all_tag_a:
    #print(links.get('href'))
    print(links)

One of the possible way to do it:

import urllib
...

try:
    # Python 2
    from urllib2 import urlopen
except ImportError:
    # Python 3
    from urllib.request import urlopen

If your code uses Python version 2.x, you can do the following:

from urllib.request import urlopen
urlopen(url)

By the way, I suggest another module called requests, which is more friendly to use. You can use pip install it, and use it like this:

import requests
requests.get(url)
requests.post(url)

Use the third-party six module to make your code compatible between Python2 and Python3.

from six.moves import urllib
urllib.request.urlopen("<your-url>")