MassDownloader questions

Dear All,
This is not a bug report rather than a list of question about this great tool I am beginning to use.

I am using it to download a large amount of data.
From the code exemples given I wrote a small code. It works, great.
But, I don’t understand everythings :

  • how does the code manage the retreive, it does not seems to be sequential regarding the dates, true ?
  • about the logging outputs, I did not achieve to get more information than the standard info. I try the “debug=True” option but it does not give so much more, I try to follow the exemple with the logging option, same. In fact I would like to get informations such as number of files to be collected, remaining number of files, already collected files…
  • What is the exact meaning of the message “[2022-01-05 10:51:40,540] - obspy.clients.fdsn.mass_downloader - INFO: Client ‘IRIS’ - No data available for request.” ? Because it appears for exemple many times when I relaunch my script while many data have been already collected. Could it be that this message is also output when the file is already downloaded in the local directory ?
  • in the exemple webpage [obspy.clients.fdsn.mass_downloader — ObsPy Documentation (1.2.0)] there is a short mistake at the “step 3 : Start the Download” the parameter “chunk_size_in_mb” does not exist and seems to be “download_chunk_size_in_mb”

Thanks in advance for your answers,

Regards
Mickael.

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