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A script to download all (as of April 2018) newspaper articles from Papers Past (NZ)
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| import requests | |
| number = 1 | |
| # Note, this will take a long time! | |
| while number < 1318493: | |
| # Make sure to change your API key at the end of the URL | |
| urltext = "http://api.digitalnz.org/v3/records.xml?api_key=################&and[collection][]=Papers+Past&sort=date&text=+&and[category][]=Newspapers&direction=asc&page=" + str(number) | |
| response = requests.get(urltext) | |
| newtext = response.text | |
| data = newtext.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii') | |
| with open('ppnewspapers\\' + str(number) + '.xml', 'w') as f: | |
| f.write(data) | |
| print(str((number*20)-19) + "-" + str(number*20) + " out of " + str(26369857) + " collected\n") | |
| number = number+1 |
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