[API-users] Downloading large numbers of datasets

[Coggins, Clint]

I'm trying to download all the occurrence data with COUNTRY=US

http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?COUNTRY=US

I've requested a download file, which is here
http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0039949-160910150852091

However, I've been having a lot of trouble getting the download to complete
since it is so large(43.2GB). I've tried various browsers and also wget on
both Linux and Mac. It typically fails with a network error in the browser.
wget displayed strange behavior in that it claimed the download was
successful after downloading 4.1GB. This was on 64 bit linux with ext4, so
I don't think there was a filesystem limitation.

Any ideas on how to download this data? Does it make sense to write a
script to use the API to request the datasets one by one to split it up?

Thanks for any help

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Clint Coggins
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