Cannot download the database using hmg_db_downloader.py

[uuwuyi]

Hi,

I used the csv file downloaded from the database website (quick search > download as csv > download complete csv) as the input for the downloader script. But it returned an error.

--> HMgDB Downloader - v.1

Would you like to fetch processed files from MG-RAST when raw data is not available? Please type Yes[default]/No:  Yes

 -> Trying processed MGRast data if raw data is not available

 -> Using input file: hmgdb_selected_dataset_all_col_20201130_015732.csv
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "hmgdb_downloader.py", line 344, in <module>
    main()
  File "hmgdb_downloader.py", line 315, in main
    sra_list, mgrast_list = get_input_file(infile)
  File "hmgdb_downloader.py", line 48, in get_input_file
    l=f.readline()
  File "/home/yw14n20/.conda/envs/main/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5400: ordinal not in range(128)

I run this command line on Linux. python3 hmgdb_downloader.py -o /scratch/yw14n20/db/hmgdb -i hmgdb_selected_dataset_all_col_20201130_015732.csv

Your help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Best regards,
Yi