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Command Line Script for Downloading a Manuscript from the British Library using dezoomify-rs
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bl-dl.sh
#!/bin/bash
wget -O - "$1" | fgrep 'id="PageList"' | sed -e 's/^.*value="//' -e 's/" \/>.*//' -e "s/||/\n/g" | grep -v '^##$' | sort | uniq | while read i; do echo "$i"; dezoomify-rs -l "http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Proxy.ashx?view=${i}.xml" "${i}.jpg"; done
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