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Trigger a collection export and download it

It's possible through the Transkribus interface to ask for an export of a collection, and later get a ZIP archive.

It could be really useful to use that as source for the import into Arkindex.

I don't know much:

  • it's pagexml
  • it does not seem possible to trigger it through the web interface
  • i don't think there are any images in there (URLs I hope)

The method should:

  1. trigger the export
  2. check if the export is ready, and wait a bit if not
  3. download the export when available
  4. support a timeout, to avoid looping indefinitely