This repository runs a GitHub action once a week to check for new newspapers on the British Library's repository and saves the associated URLs for downloading the data for the newspapers in the Newspaper Collection
The data is stored in a JSON file HMD_title_urls.json. The data looks like this:
{"The Express": {"1850": {"url": "https://bl.iro.bl.uk/downloads/54d974ba-fcb2-4566-a5ac-b66d85954963?locale=en", "fname": "BLNewspapers_0002642_TheExpress_1850_92c556b4-ca36-4095-9050-2e89f6534bb6.zip"}, "1855": {"url": "https://bl.iro.bl.uk/downloads/aa8b9145-a7d9-4869-8f3e-07d864238ff0?locale=en", "fname": "BLNewspapers_0002642_TheExpress_1855_aad58961-131c-416c-846f-be435bf63d38.zip"}, "1862": {"url": "https://bl.iro.bl.uk/downloads/5b450972-990c-4ed5-a979-2c3fef6d0c4a?locale=en", "fname": "BLNewspapers_0002642_TheExpress_1862_19be85f5-5e76-4fd7-995f-2c24b7de36e5.zip"}, "1864": {"url": "https://bl.iro.bl.uk/downloads/9c4f2fd6-d58c-4a57-8fac-a5dd273f8ed3?locale=en", "fname": "BLNewspapers_0002642_TheExpress_1864_68176359-717d-4878-a2ac-1228c0fb83f8.zip"}....This allows you to filter the newspapers by title, year or some combination of these before downloading the material.