getting unique values and counting amounts

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Yes, this works.

That's different is a file path in you other post it's a url.
Then need a web package as mention bye @ichabod801,then it's of course Requests you should use.

import requests
import os

url = 'http://pythonscraping.com/files/inaugurationSpeech.txt'
file_name = os.path.basename(url)
response =  requests.get(url)
with open(file_name,'wb') as f:
    f.write(response.content)

Do not use encoding='latin-1' the rule is simple do text show without any problem in Python 3.
Then take it out/in with encoding='utf-8'.
Taking data into Python 3 may sometime require other encoding that utf-8.

s = 'Crème and Spicy jalapeño ☂ ⛄日本語のキ'
# Out
with open('unicode.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f_out:
    f_out.write(s)

# Back in
with open('unicode.txt', encoding='utf8') as f:
    data = f.read()
    print(data)

Output:
Crème and Spicy jalapeño ☂ ⛄日本語の