diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,8 +46,13 @@ Installation instruction for other platforms can be found in the [pip documentat
 
 ### Downloading discogs dumps
 
-Download the latest dump files from discogs manually from [discogs](https://data.discogs.com/)
-or run `get_latest_dumps.sh`.
+Download the latest dump files using one of the methods below:
+
+1. manually from [discogs dumps](https://data.discogs.com/);
+2. running `python3 get_latest_dumps.py [/path/where/to/save/them]`;
+3. running `python3 get_latest_dumps.py --save-urls=/tmp/discogs.urls --url-only`
+   and then use "wget" or "aria2c" to download the dumps using
+   urls file.
 
 To check the files' integrity download the appropriate checksum file from
 [https://data.discogs.com/](https://data.discogs.com/),
diff --git a/get_latest_dumps.py b/get_latest_dumps.py
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/get_latest_dumps.py
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import argparse
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+import time
+import urllib
+from datetime import date
+from urllib.request import urlopen, urlretrieve
+from xml.dom import minidom
+
+year = date.today().year
+USER_AGENT = (
+    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/534.51.22 "
+    "(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.1 Safari/534.51.22"
+)
+
+ACCEPT = "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate"
+URL_LIST = "http://discogs-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/?delimiter=/&prefix=data/{0}/".format(
+    year
+)
+URL_DIR = "http://discogs-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/{0}"
+TMP = "discogs-{0}.urls".format(year)
+PATTERN = r"discogs_[0-9]{8}_(artists|labels|masters|releases|CHECKSUM)\.(xml.gz|txt)"
+
+
+def getText(nodelist):
+    rc = []
+    for node in nodelist:
+        if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
+            rc.append(node.data)
+    return "".join(rc)
+
+
+def get_list() -> str:
+    f = urlopen(URL_LIST)
+    content = f.read()
+    return content
+
+
+def xml_extract_latest(text):
+    dom = minidom.parseString(text)
+    file_nodes = [getText(n.childNodes) for n in dom.getElementsByTagName("Key")]
+    files = sorted(file_nodes, reverse=True)
+    last_entries = []
+    for f in files:
+        if re.search(PATTERN, f) is not None:
+            last_entries.append(f)
+        # 4 files + checksum.
+        # brittle approach as it relies on all of them to be in order
+        if len(last_entries) == 5:
+            break
+
+    return last_entries
+
+
+def make_url(*chunks):
+    for chunk in chunks:
+        yield URL_DIR.format(chunk)
+
+
+def reporthook(count, block_size, total_size):
+    global start_time
+    if count == 0:
+        start_time = time.time()
+        return
+    duration = time.time() - start_time
+    progress_size = int(count * block_size)
+    speed = int(progress_size / (1024 * duration))
+    percent = int(count * block_size * 100 / total_size)
+    sys.stdout.write(
+        "\r...%d%%, %d MB / %d MB, %d KB/s, %d seconds passed"
+        % (percent, progress_size / (1024 * 1024), total_size / (1024 * 1024), speed, duration)
+    )
+    sys.stdout.flush()
+
+
+def save_url(url, filename):
+    # print(f"Would retrieve {filename} from {url}")
+    # return
+    print(f"\nRetrieving {url}")
+    urlretrieve(url, filename, reporthook)
+
+
+def save_urls(dir, *urls):
+    if not os.path.exists(dir):
+        os.makedirs(dir, exist_ok=True)
+
+    for url in urls:
+        _, file = url.rsplit("/", 1)
+        file = os.path.join(dir, file)
+        save_url(url, file)
+
+
+def main(args):
+    xml = ""
+    if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == "--test":
+        with open(os.path.realpath("./tmp/ListBucketResult.xml")) as fxml:
+            xml = fxml.read()
+    else:
+        xml = get_list()
+
+    urls = list(make_url(*xml_extract_latest(xml)))
+
+    if args.save_urls is not None:
+        with open(args.save_urls, mode="w") as f:
+            f.writelines(url + os.linesep for url in urls)
+        print(f"Wrote urls to {args.save_urls}")
+
+    if args.url_only:
+        # if there's no save_urls file, print to std out
+        if args.save_urls is None:
+            print("\n".join(urls))
+        sys.exit(0)
+
+    # if we got this far, we are interested in the actual download
+    save_urls(args.output_dir, *urls)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Retrieves the latest discogs xml dumps.")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--url-only",
+        "-u",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Only retrieve the discogs URLs, does not retrieve the files",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("--save-urls", "-s", help="Saves urls to a file")
+    parser.add_argument("output_dir", nargs="?", default=os.getcwd())
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    main(args)
diff --git a/get_latest_dumps.sh b/get_latest_dumps.sh
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--- a/get_latest_dumps.sh
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@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#/bin/bash
-#set -xv
-
-USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/534.51.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.1 Safari/534.51.22"
-ACCEPT="Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate"
-D_URL_LIST="http://discogs-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/?delimiter=/&prefix=data/"$(date +"%Y")"/"
-D_URL_DIR="http://discogs-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/data/"$(date +"%Y")"/"
-D_TMP=/tmp/discogs.urls
-D_PATTERN="discogs_[0-9]{8}_(artists|labels|masters|releases).xml.gz"
-
-TEST=""
-[[ "$1" == '--test' ]] && TEST='--spider -S'
-
-echo "" > $D_TMP
-
-for f in `wget -c --user-agent="$USER_AGENT" --header="$ACCEPT" -qO- $D_URL_LIST | grep -Eio "$D_PATTERN" | sort | uniq | tail -n 4` ; do
-	echo $D_URL_DIR$f >> $D_TMP
-done
-
-wget -c --user-agent="$USER_AGENT" --header="$ACCEPT" --no-clobber --input-file=$D_TMP $TEST --progress=bar