Downloader

The oldvis_dataset package can be used to download the processed metadata for 13,000 historical visualizations (see dataset), as well as the corresponding images.

Installation

pip install oldvis_dataset

Basic Usage

The package provides simple functions to download both metadata and images:

from oldvis_dataset import visualizations, fetch_images

# Download metadata
visualizations.download(path="./visualizations.json")

# Download images (note: this process may be slow)
fetch_images(metadata_path="./visualizations.json", img_dir="./images/")

You can also load metadata directly into Python without saving files, or filter the data before downloading images. The package supports downloading author metadata and exporting to BibTeX format.

For detailed API documentation and more examples, see the oldvis_dataset repository.