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		NKCSS on Sept 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for u... 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/

aaronpkelly on Oct 1, 2020 [–]

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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