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@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ or, to just change between versions after you've switched to using the gdcc repo
 
     update externaltool set toolurl=REPLACE(toolurl, 'v1.2', 'v1.3');
 
+## Fully Local Installation
+By default, previewers reference several JavaScript libraries and style files from their original web locations. If you would like to have a local installation that doesn't require access to other websites, you can use the localinstall.sh script. Download the repository to your local machine, change to the root directory where the localinstall.sh script is and run
+
+    ./localinstall.sh previewers/v1.4 https://<your host>/<your base path to the previewers>
+
+and the script will download all external JavaScript and css files required by the previewers for the version you specified and will update the example configuration commands in the 6.1curlcommands.md, 5.2curlcommands.md and pre5.2curlcommands.md files to reference your local URL. In the case above, using the parameters previewers/v1.4 and https://example.com/path would result example curl commands where the TextPreview.html would be available at https://example.com/path/previewers/v1.4/TextPreview.html.
 
 ## How do they work?
 
diff --git a/localinstall.sh b/localinstall.sh
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@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+dirLocal=$(pwd)
+
+# go to the version folder
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+    echo "Provide the relative path to the previewer version you wish to make an all-local instance of, e.g. previewers/v1.4."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$2" ]; then
+    echo "To update the example curl commands, add the base URL for your local previewer installation as the second parameter."
+    echo "E.g. https://yourinstitution.org/mypreviewerdir to have the Text previewer at https://yourinstitution.org/mypreviewerdir/previewers/v1.4/TextPreview.html"
+    echo "The version will match the relative path you provide"
+    echo ""
+fi
+
+folder="$1"
+cd "${folder}"
+
+echo Downloading local copies of remote JavaScript libraries:
+sed -n 's/.*src="\(http[^"]*\)".*/\1/p' *.html | sort -u | sed -n 's/^\(.*\/\)*\(.*\)/sed -i \x27s,\0\,lib\/\2,\x27 *.html/p' > replace_js.sh
+sed -n 's/.*src="\(http[^"]*\)".*/\1/p' *.html | sort -u  > urls_js.txt
+source replace_js.sh
+cat urls_js.txt
+
+echo Downloading local copies of remote CSS files:
+sed -n 's/.*<link.*href="\(http[^"]*\)".*/\1/p' *.html | sort -u | sed -n 's/^\(.*\/\)*\(.*\)/sed -i \x27s,\0\,lib\/\2,\x27 *.html/p' > replace_css.sh
+sed -n 's/.*<link.*href="\(http[^"]*\)".*/\1/p' *.html | sort -u > urls_css.txt
+source replace_css.sh
+cat urls_css.txt
+
+if [ ! -d ./lib ]; then
+  mkdir ./lib
+fi
+cd ./lib
+while read url; do
+    wget --quiet $url
+done < "../urls_js.txt"
+
+
+cd ".."
+if [ ! -d ./css ]; then
+  mkdir ./css
+fi
+cd ./css
+while read url; do
+    wget --quiet $url
+done < "../urls_css.txt"
+
+cd ..
+
+
+if [ ! -z "$2" ]; then
+cd "${dirLocal}"
+echo Changing example curl commands to use local URLs
+localurl="$2"
+sed -i "s,https://gdcc.github.io/dataverse-previewers/previewers/v1.[34],$localurl/$folder,g" *curlcommands.md
+echo Done changing example curl commands to use local URLs
+cd "${folder}"
+fi
+
+echo Cleaning Up...
+rm urls_js.txt
+rm urls_css.txt
+rm replace_js.sh
+rm replace_css.sh
+
+echo Done
+exit 0
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