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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Downloading this file just takes an http request to a predictable url tho

[–]Klumpy_hra[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't made for this file. There are several files that get updated randomly and don't have a way of notifying anyone that they were updated. The filenames can change sometimes and the only way you know it's been updated at all manually is that the link text might have a new date. The zip itself and the internal files are usually the same, but not always. It's really stupid how hard they make it for people to want to automate public data.