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+# To provide more readable output from DMRlink with current subscriber and repeater IDs, we download the CSV files from DMR-MARC
+# If you are going to use this in a cron task,  don't run it more then once a day.
+# It might be good to find alternale a source as a backup.
+
+# <http://www.dmr-marc.net/cgi-bin/trbo-database/datadump.cgi>
+
+# wget -O users.csv -q "http://www.dmr-marc.net/cgi-bin/trbo-database/datadump.cgi?table=users&format=csv&header=0"
+
+# Options are:
+
+# table { users | repeaters }
+
+# format { table | csv | csvq | json }
+
+# header { 0 | 1 } (only applies to table and csv formats)
+
+# id { nnnnnn } (query an individual record)
+
+# Get the user IDs.
+wget -O subscriber_idsxxx.csv -q "http://www.dmr-marc.net/cgi-bin/trbo-database/datadump.cgi?table=users&format=csv&header=0"
+
+# Get the peer IDs
+wget -O peer_idsxxx.csv -q "http://www.dmr-marc.net/cgi-bin/trbo-database/datadump.cgi?table=repeaters&format=csv&header=0"
+