Crawl the Xeno-canto API
Description
The Bash script crawl-xc.sh is designed to download animal sound metadata from the Xeno-canto API. It takes a specified query as input, fetches the relevant data across multiple pages, and then aggregates this data into a single CSV file. The name of the CSV file is generated based on the query parameter.
Make the script executable: chmod +x crawl-xc.sh
Run the script: ./crawl-xc.sh
Output
A CSV file containing aggregated metadata, named based on the query (e.g., grp_2_recordings.csv).
Description
The IPython Notebook xc_stats.ipynb reads the metadata downloaded from Xeno-canto, which is stored in the CSV file generated by the Bash script. It computes frequencies of recordings for different attributes, for instance, countries, genus, species and so on.