Hi Matt, Thanks so much for your help. I was able to successfully get the file from your link. I did notice there was not "Content-Length" header in the original download response. Maybe that has something to do with the wget trouble.
> Subject: Re: [API-users] Downloading large numbers of datasets > Message-ID: <14c80817-da32-23c4-e1ee-eded21481079 at gbif.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" > > Hi Clint, > > You're first to report a problem, though trying to download the file > (64-bit Linux, wget) within the GBIF network also failed for me. > > I've copied it with a different method to here: > http://download.gbif.org/2016/12/0039949-160910150852091.zip -- on a > plain Apache server, so wget's "--continue" option should work if necessary. > > The MD5 checksum is e976523c9e6c7ec0cd9d3cb30030020b and the size is > exactly 43,184,530,448 bytes. > > If downloading that doesn't work, I could split the file into chunks. > We'll also look into why the download failed [1]. > > Cheers, > > Matt Blissett > > [1] http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-3199 > > > On 07/12/2016 14.53, Coggins, Clint wrote: >> 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 >> >> -- >> Clint Coggins
