Copy xml content from webpage and save to locally without special characters

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Example,and use Requests and not urllib.

import requests

url = "https://www.w3schools.com/xml/plant_catalog.xml"
response = requests.get(url)
with open('plant_catalog.xml', 'wb') as fp:
    fp.write(response.content)

With a combination of Beautiful Soup that common to use with this.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = "https://www.w3schools.com/xml/plant_catalog.xml"
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'xml')
first_common = soup.find('COMMON')
print(first_common.text)
# The whole plant_catalog.xml
#print(soup)

# Save to disk
with open('plant_catalog.xml', 'w') as fp:
    fp.write(soup.prettify())

Output:
Bloodroot