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You can just scrape it if you wanted to; grab the src of all the <audio> elements and page through them all. Use the names/descriptions for proper naming.


I just checked; the site uses this CSV to build the UI: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/BBCSoundEffects.csv

So no need to actually scrape; you can download the CSV and download all the individual files from that.

base url: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/


Thanks, I used that CSV to download all the WAV files, but the final size was... very large... so I converted them all to OPUS :)

The total size is now ~17G. If anyone wants the converted files, I made a .torrent: https://tinyurl.com/y6xn8ksj




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