from trove_newspaper_images.articles import download_images
images = download_images('107024751')
images['nla.news-article107024751-11565831.jpg']trove-newspaper-images
tool to download digitised newspaper articles from Trove as 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
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 imagesAdd the --masked parameter to try and remove content from neighbouring articles.
trove_newspaper_images.download 107024751 --maskedCreated by Tim Sherratt (@wragge) for the GLAM Workbench.