Automating the code using os.walk

[kiton]

I would just try

Output:
wget https://archive.org/download/archiveteam-twitter-stream-2012-01/archiveteam-twitter-2012-01.tar

on your remote machine. wget is usually quite reliable.

Thank you for suggestion. I am downloading the file this way now and will test it. The speed, however, is relatively slow--1-2MB/s on a 10 Gigabit channel.