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+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import threading
+
+base_url = "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-precipitation-climatology-project-gpcp-daily/access/"
+
+start_year = 2011
+
+
+def get_with_retry(url):
+    while True:
+        try:
+            return requests.get(url, timeout=30)
+        except:
+            pass
+
+
+def worker(year):
+    html_url = base_url + str(year)
+    html = get_with_retry(html_url).text
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
+    names = [a.attrs['href'] for a in soup.find_all('a')]
+    for name in names:
+        if name.startswith("gpcp"):
+            url = html_url + '/' + name
+            print("Downloading " + name + "...")
+            open(name, 'wb').write(get_with_retry(url).content)
+
+
+threads = []
+
+for year in range(start_year, start_year+10):
+    t = threading.Thread(target=worker, args=(year,))
+    threads.append(t)
+    t.start()
+
+for t in threads:
+    t.join()