pull_mbtiles.py

try:
    import simplejson as json
except:
    import json
import re
import requests

dir_url = 'http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/modilabs/maps.json'
map_data = json.load(requests.get(dir_url).text)
nmis_exp = re.compile("Nigeria|nigeria|nmis")
nmis_tiles = [m['download'] for m in j if re.match(nmis_exp, m['name'])]

def get_name(url):
    name_exp = re.compile("http\:\/\/a\.tiles\.mapbox\.com\/v3\/modilabs\.")
    url = re.sub(init_exp, '', url)
    return url

def get_file(url):
    res = requests.get(url)
    name = get_name(url)
    with open("mbtiles/%s" % name, 'wb') as w:
        w.write(res.content)

for item in nmis_tiles:
    print("start downloading %s" % item)
    get_file(item)
    print("finished downloading %s" % item)