error while downloading recordings with query_xc

[malavika-madh]

Hi,

I downloaded recordings in the past with no problem using query_xc. Now however, it is giving me an error that "HTTP status was '404 Not Found'". I am trying to download recordings from metadata that I filtered to have only a certain type of vocalization. I downloaded warbleR from github after looking at previous issues but it still has the same problem.

Code:

#Packages
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("maRce10/warbleR")
library(warbleR)
library(tuneR)
library(maps)
library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)
library(xlsx)
library(writexl)
library(lubridate)
library(plyr)
library(sqldf)

#corvids
Corvus1<- query_xc(qword = "Corvus", download = FALSE)
|++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++| 100% elapsed=02m 22s
6203 recording(s) found!

#keep only alarm calls
alarm<-sqldf("SELECT * FROM Corvus1 WHERE Vocalization_type LIKE '%alarm%'")

#download recordings
query_xc(X = alarm, download = TRUE)
Downloading files...
| | 0 % ~calculating Error in download.file(url = paste("https://www.xeno-canto.org/download.php?XC=", :
cannot open URL 'https://www.xeno-canto.org/download.php?XC=357593'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url = paste("https://www.xeno-canto.org/download.php?XC=", :
cannot open URL 'https://www.xeno-canto.org/download.php?XC=357593': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'

Thanks in advance!

[thesnakeguy]

Just wanted to post the same issue. Example:
> query_xc(X = query, download = T, path = "mp3/", parallel = 12) Downloading files... | | 0 % ~calculating Error in checkForRemoteErrors(val) : 12 nodes produced errors; first error: cannot open URL 'https://www.xeno-canto.org/download.php?XC=487296'

A simple
query_xc("Bubo bubo", download = T, path = "mp3/", parallel = 12)
Also gives "Cannot open URL" error.

Many thanks for looking into this.

[maRce10]

Thanks for reporting. It seems that XC changed the base URL for file downloading. I just updated the function so it's working again. Please re-install warbleR from github.

[thesnakeguy]

Many thanks maRce10. Enjoy the holidays!

[malavika-madh]

Thank you so much Marcelo, I tried now and it works.
Merry Christmas and Happy new year!