MIT-LCP / MIT-LCP/physionet

Add download command

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Since Aug 27, 2026.

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Description

We should consider adding a download command, e.g.:

physionet download slug --version 1.1

This could potentially replace the wget command that we currently suggest in the files section.

We could then direct the request to use the fastest source for the download.

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