Download all issues of Emigre Magazine from Letterform Archive’s Online Archive

convert.sh

# Move the results into their own folder, drag that parent folder into imageOptim, `cd` into it, then:
for d in Issue\ */; do
  cd "$d"
  convert -compress jpeg -quality 33 -resize 2388x2388\> *.jpg "../${d%/}.pdf"
  cd ..
done

emigre.js

import fs from 'fs';
import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const N_ISSUES = 69;

// We rely on a 404 to tell us when we've reached the end of an issue. We
// request multiple pages at once to speed up the process, and continue until
// one of the pages in a batch returns a 404.
const PAGE_BATCH_SIZE = 2;

const pad = (num, size) => num.toString().padStart(size, '0');

for (let issue = 1; issue <= N_ISSUES; ++issue) {
	getIssue(issue);
}

async function getIssue(issue) {
	// Create a folder for this issue.
	const formattedIssue = pad(issue, 4);
	const folderName = `Issue ${pad(issue, 2)}`;
	fs.mkdirSync(folderName);

	let hasMorePages = true;
	let pageOffset = 0;
	while (hasMorePages) {
		const requests = Array.from({ length: PAGE_BATCH_SIZE }, (_, i) => {
			const page = pageOffset + i + 1;
			const formattedPage = pad(page, 3);
			function getPage(nRetries) {
				if (nRetries > 2) {
					return console.error(`FAILURE! Hit the retry limit fetching page ${page} of issue ${issue}.`);
				}
				return fetch(
					`https://oa.letterformarchive.org/oaapi/image/lfa_emigre_${formattedIssue}/lfa_emigre_${formattedIssue}_${formattedPage}`,
					{
						headers: {
							Referer: `https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_${formattedIssue}&targPic=lfa_emigre_${formattedIssue}_${formattedPage}.jpg`,
						},
					}
				)
					.then(res => {
						// A 404 implies the end of the issue.
						if (res.status === 404) {
							hasMorePages = false;
							return;
						}
						// Otherwise, save the image.
						res.body.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(`${folderName}/${formattedPage}.jpg`));
					})
					.catch(async _err => {
						// Retry on error.
						return await getPage(nRetries + 1);
					});
			}
			return getPage(0);
		});
		await Promise.all(requests);
		pageOffset += PAGE_BATCH_SIZE;
	}
	console.log(`Success! Got issue ${issue}.`);
}

thank you so much for this !

Worked like a charm. Thanks!