# download_pg_pre1950.sh # Dependencies: wget, bzip2, tar, python3, rsync set -Eeuo pipefail ROOT="$HOME/projects/pre-1950s-text/data" META_DIR="$ROOT/meta" LIST="$ROOT/pre1950_ids.txt" TXT_DIR="$ROOT/text" MIRROR="rsync://rsync.gutenberg.org/gutenberg" # any listed mirror is acceptable mkdir -p "$META_DIR" "$TXT_DIR" # 1. obtain full metadata archive (≈ 400 MB compressed, ~2 GB uncompressed) # wget -N -P "$META_DIR" http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/feeds/rdf-files.tar.bz2 # :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} # bzip2 -dk "$META_DIR/rdf-files.tar.bz2" # tar -xf "$META_DIR/rdf-files.tar" -C "$META_DIR" # 2. build list of eBook IDs satisfying: # – dcterms:issued ≤ 1949 (best available proxy; original print date is absent) :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1} python3 - <<'PY' import pathlib, re, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET, sys, datetime, itertools META_ROOT = pathlib.Path("/Users/brk/projects/pre-1950s-text/data") YEAR_LIMIT = 1949 ids = [] for rdf in META_ROOT.rglob("*.rdf"): # try: tree = ET.parse(rdf) issued = tree.find(".//{http://purl.org/dc/terms/}issued") if issued is None: print("issued is none") continue year = int(issued.text[:4]) print(f"year is {year}") if year <= YEAR_LIMIT: match = re.search(r'pg(\d+)\.rdf$', rdf.name) if match: ids.append(int(match.group(1))) print(f"Adding id {ids[-1]} to list") # except Exception: # print('Failed wtih exception') # continue ids.sort() with open("/Users/brk/projects/pre-1950s-text/data/pre1950_ids.txt", "w") as f: for i in ids: # construct rsync path fragment e.g. id 1342 ➜ 1/3/4/1342/1342-0.txt path = "/".join(list(str(i)[:-1])) # '', '1', '3', '4' for 1342 if path: path += "/" path += f"{i}/{i}-*.txt" f.write(f"{path}\n") print(f"IDs written: {len(ids)}", file=sys.stderr) PY # 3. download only the plain‑text files matching those IDs rsync -av --delete --include="*/" --include-from="$LIST" --exclude="*" "$MIRROR/" "$TXT_DIR/" # :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}