Additional download options

[pwalczysko]

In the https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/about/download.html there is no mention about download possiblities without the usage of the software such as ftp or Globus.

We could add code snippets such as usage of wget or ftputil library:

download locally the image by running from a terminal

wget https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/IDR/idr0062-blin-nuclearsegmentation/20190429-ftp/Blastocysts/B4_C3.tif

When writing a Python script, using wget is not really practical. In such case, one of the possibilities is the ftputil library

import ftputil
import os


files = ["pub/databases/IDR/idr0062-blin-nuclearsegmentation/20190429-ftp/Blastocysts/B4_C3.tif"]           
with ftputil.FTPHost('ftp.ebi.ac.uk', 'anonymous') as host:
    names = host.listdir(host.curdir)
    for name in names:
        if name == 'pub': # only check the IDR data
            for file in files:
                local_name = os.path.basename(file)
                if host.path.isfile(file):
                    host.download(file, local_name)