iiif-download 0.1.6

A Python package to download images from IIIF manifests

Download images from IIIF manifests

This repository contains code to download images from IIIF manifests. It takes into account limitations and data specificities from various institutions.

pip install iiif-download

Basic usage

The configuration is stored in iiif_download/config.py and can be overriden by setting environment variables.

Inside a script

from iiif_download import IIIFManifest, config, Config

# Override the default configuration
config.max_size = 2500
config.img_dir = "custom/path/to/images"

manifest_url = "https://example.org/manifest"

# Use global config
manifest = IIIFManifest(manifest_url)

# or override the global config for a specific manifest
manifest = IIIFManifest(
    manifest_url,
    # surcharge any global attribute locally
    img_dir="path/to/dir",
    max_size=4000
)

# or define another config
manifest = IIIFManifest(manifest_url, config=Config(is_logged=False))

# Download images from a manifest inside img_dir/dir_name
manifest.download(save_dir="dir_name")

Command line

# override specific variables
export IIIF_IMG_DIR=custom/path/to/images
export IIIF_MAX_SIZE=4000
# or use .env
source .env

iiif-download https://example.org/manifest
iiif-download -f test-manifests.txt
iiif-download -d custom/path/to/images

Metadata extraction

from iiif_download import IIIFManifest

manifest = IIIFManifest("https://example.org/manifest")
manifest.load()
lic = manifest.license
author = manifest.get_meta("author")
images = manifest.get_images()