A Python-based tool using Selenium to download books to your harddrive rather than accessing the pictures through the API at historisch.cbs.nl
Selenium (pip install selenium
), time, os, webdriver-manager (pip install webdriver-manager
)
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.
a dot h dot machielsen at uu dot nl