trove-newspaper-images

Background and alternatives

There’s no reliable way of downloading an image of a Trove newspaper article from the web interface. The image download option produces an HTML page with embedded images, and the article is often sliced into pieces to fit the page.

This package includes tools to download articles as complete JPEG images. If an article is printed across multiple newspaper pages, multiple images will be downloaded – one for each page. It’s intended for integration into other tools and processing workflows, or for people who like working on the command line.

If you just want to quickly download an article as an image without installing anything, you can use this web app in the GLAM Workbench. To download images of all articles returned by a search in Trove, you can also use the Trove Newspaper and Gazette Harvester.

See the documentation for more information.

Install

pip install trove-newspaper-images

Download articles as images

Use as a library

from trove_newspaper_images.articles import download_images

images = download_images('107024751')
images

['nla.news-article107024751-11565831.jpg']

Use from the command line

Just call trove_newspaper_images.download from the command line with an article identifier. You can use the --output_dir parameter to specify a directory for the downloaded images. For example:

trove_newspaper_images.download 107024751 --output_dir images

Add the --masked parameter to try and remove content from neighbouring articles.

trove_newspaper_images.download 107024751 --masked

Created by Tim Sherratt (@wragge) for the GLAM Workbench.