Crosspost from ASL/r
I need help preserving this language. Specifically, a method to automate downloads.
I took a course over a decade ago on the Ainu language, which is the language of the native people of Northern Japan, and found it extremely fascinating. The instructor was one of the few people preserving the language and had thousands of audio and video files of the spoken language. The language has no written form (with the exception of a modified version of modern Japanese) so I believe the audio and video files are extremely valuable to preserve. I reached out to the instructor a couple of years ago and she said the files were archived, but not easily accessible, so was unable to share them with me.
Here is where I'm asking for help:
I found the files online but I need help with an easy/automated way to download them. There are over 4000 files and you have to open a link for each one individually, and even then, there is no simple "download' button.
The index is here and to navigate to the actual files you have to click the folder link, expand an information box, copy the provided "file handle" link, and download the file from the newly opened tab.
Take Audio731, the 5th entry in that index, for example. When you click it, you are taken here. If you click on the box that seems like it would take you to the file, it takes you here and tells you, " This file cannot be displayed. This might be because it is in a format which does not have a registered renderer, it is stored somewhere where it is not accessible for immediate usage, or because you do not have permission to access the full content."
So instead, you need to NOT click that box on the previous page, but click on the button that says, "Show more". Then copy the file handle link, which is http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-8887-3/ Only then can you download the file.
As you can imagine, this will be very time consuming if I have to d
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