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## mozdownload 1.18 released

DevFeed: [mozdownload 1.18 released](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mozdownload-1-18-released-20305.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.hskupin.info/2015/09/14/mozdownload-1-18-released/>)

Author: Admin

Published: 2015-09-14T15:32:41Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Mozilla Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mozilla-automation.md>)

Topics: [PyPI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pypi.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Script](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/script.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firefox.md>), [mozdownload](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mozdownload.md>), [mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mozilla.md>), [pypi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pypi.md>), [qa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/qa.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [script](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/script.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

### AI overview

mozdownload 1.18 was released to PyPI with a new API that makes it easier to use mozdownload from scripts. A factory scraper selects the appropriate scraper based on the provided options, and the API can provide remote URLs and local filenames.

### Source excerpt

Today we have released mozdownload 1.18 to PyPI. The reason why I think it's worth a blog post is that with this version we finally added support for a sane API. With it available using the mozdownload code in your own script is getting much easier. So there is no need to instantiate a specific scraper anymore but a factory scraper is doing all the work depending on the options it gets. Here some examples: from mozdownload import FactoryScraper scraper = FactoryScraper('release', version='40.0.3', locale='de') scraper.download() from mozdownload import FactoryScraper scraperContinue readingmozdownload 1.18 released