diff --git a/bdpy/dataset/__init__.py b/bdpy/dataset/__init__.py
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+"""Dataset package."""
diff --git a/bdpy/dataset/utils.py b/bdpy/dataset/utils.py
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+"""Dataset utilities."""
+
+from typing import Union
+
+import hashlib
+import urllib.request
+
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+
+def download_file(url: str, destination: str, progress_bar: bool = True, md5sum: Union[str, None] = None) -> None:
+    """Download a file.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    url: str
+      File URL.
+    destination: str
+      Path to save the file.
+    progress_bar: bool = True
+      Show progress bar if True.
+    md5sum: Union[str, None] = None
+      md5sum hash of the file.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    None
+    """
+    response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
+    file_size = int(response.info()["Content-Length"])
+
+    def __show_progress(block_num: int, block_size: int, total_size: int) -> None:
+        downloaded = block_num * block_size
+        if total_size > 0:
+            progress_bar.update(downloaded - progress_bar.n)
+
+    with tqdm(total=file_size, unit='B', unit_scale=True, desc=destination, ncols=100) as progress_bar:
+        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, destination, __show_progress)
+
+    if md5sum is not None:
+        md5_hash = hashlib.md5()
+        with open(destination, 'rb') as f:
+            for chunk in iter(lambda: f.read(4096), b''):
+                md5_hash.update(chunk)
+        md5sum_test = md5_hash.hexdigest()
+        if md5sum != md5sum_test:
+            raise ValueError(f'md5sum mismatch. \nExpected: {md5sum}\nActual: {md5sum_test}')