traffic-cameras

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Easily batch download images from Minnesota (and Iowa) traffic cameras

• easy to use

• powerful command line options

• option to save metadata

• adjustable concurrent requests

How do I install this?

to install via NPM type the following into terminal:

npm i -g traffic-cameras

this will install the module globally, meaning you can use traffic-cameras in terminal to run it

Examples

• download all MN traffic cameras to the current directory

  traffic-cameras

• download all MN traffic cameras to a folder called 'images'

  traffic-cameras --directory images

• download all MN traffic cameras into their own folder (if you want to do timelapses) *This option changes how files are titled so you can run this command on a timer and generate a timelapse

traffic-cameras --folders

• download all Iowa traffic camera images to the current directory

traffic-cameras --json https://tr.511ia.org/tgcameras/api/cameras

Command line options

| long_argument | short | input type | description | default | |---------------|----------------|------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------| | --timeout | -t | integer | specifies the timeout (in ms) for downloading individual images | 4000 | | --retries | -r | integer | number of times to attempt retrying the download of a broken image | 3 | | --concurrency | -c | integer | number of concurrent downloads supported | 10 | | --verbose | -v | n/a (flag) | enables more detailed terminal logging | disabled | | --quiet | -q | n/a (flag) | disables ALL console output | disabled | | --log | -l | n/a (flag) | saves verbose output to log.log | disabled | | --directory | -d | file path | directory/path to save images to | current directory | | --json | -j | url | URL of camera api JSON file to fetch cameras from | *see below |y | --folders | -f | n/a (flag) | separates each camera to its own folder. useful for creating timelapses | disabled | | --no-metadata | -m | n/a (flag) | disables saving of metadata JSON files | enabled (ie metadata is saved) |

* the default value for --json is https://tr.511mn.org/tgcameras/api/cameras