How to do it

Here is how we proceed with the recipe:

1. The URLUtility class can download content from a URL.  The code in the recipe's file is the following:

import const
from util.urls import URLUtility

util = URLUtility(const.ApodEclipseImage())
print(len(util.data))

1. When running this you will see the following output:

Reading URL: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1709/BT5643s.jpg
Read 171014 bytes
171014

The example reads 171014 bytes of data.