cbs-hist-downloader 1.0.2

A python program for downloading images from CBS historisch.

cbs_hist_downloader

A Python-based tool using Selenium to download books to your harddrive rather than accessing the pictures through the API at historisch.cbs.nl

Dependencies

Selenium (pip install selenium), time, os, webdriver-manager (pip install webdriver-manager)

Example how to use:

In the console:

pip install cbs_hist_downloader

After installation, in a python environment, you start off with the first URL of the book/volume you want to download:

import cbs_hist_downloader as chd

url = "https://historisch.cbs.nl/detail.php?nav_id=2-1&index=10&id=395291474"

chd.scrape_book(url)

The files will be downloaded to your Downloads folder.

Suggestions / Comments

a dot h dot machielsen at uu dot nl