Getting Started

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You must have a program called Python to run lds-get.

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I will assume you are using windows (although I prefer using Linux and I wish more people would give it a chance). Lets create a couple of folders on the C: drive. The first we will call 'ldsget' then we will create another folder inside this which we will call 'data'. If we look at the path of this folder it would be 'c:\ldsget\data'. If you are using Linux, or a Mac, or some other unix like machine you would do this inside your home directory.

Okay now open the config file.

Go to the OutputPath line. This is where all the files that are retrieved from LDS.org will be placed. Based from the above folders we created we would set this to:

OutputPath = r"c:\ldsget\data"

Now go to the LayoutsPath line. This is where the various layouts that you create or that you download from the lds-get site will go. Extract lds-get.tgz into the 'c:\ldsget' folder, this will create a sub-folder entitled lds-get. Which will have a subfolder entitled layouts. So we set this like:

LayoutsPath = r"c:\ldsget\lds-get\layouts"

Next the filemap. Based on where we extracted lds-get to we would give this the value:

FilemapPath = r"c:\ldsget\lds-get\src\filemap.txt"

There we should be done. I am assuming that the next configuration parameter looks like this:

DefaultArgs = ["example"]

So just save config.py and then double click on lds-get.py. You should see it starting to download files from lds.org (this may take quite a while), when it is done it will convert them all and you will have a nice set of files on your local computer.

Now just go into your web browser and open the file 'c:\ldsget\data\example\index.html' and you should be able to browse around the files that were just retrieved for you.