iiif-scraper

Perl tool for downloading images from IIIF manifests

Requirements

• Perl > 5.10
• Perl Modules
  • JSON
  • IO::Socket::SSL
  • Mozilla::CA
  • LWP::UserAgent
  • LWP::Simple
  • Data::Dumper
  • Getopt::Long

Basic

./iiif-scraper.pl --target=<TargetDir> --iiif=<ManifestURL> is the basic mode of operation. It will create a directory named TargetDir, if one does not exist, and download an IIIF manifest from ManifestURL. The manifest gets parsed and all images downloaded, with internal filename, to the TargetDir

Optional Arguments

• --verbose -- Emit a bunch of debugging information to console
• --numbers -- Do not use the internal filename for images, simply number them in sequence
• --labels -- Rename the files to the value in the label in the manifest. The label is slightly modified to be a filename, spaces are replaced with _ and numbers are 0-padded, so fol. 123 v.jpg becomes fol._00123_v.jpg
• --size=<SIZE> -- request the images with maximum height of SIZE. This is automatically set to 1200 if not set for the National Library of Wales to accomodate their restrictions