diff --git a/mokelumne/dags/fetch_ldc_corpus.py b/mokelumne/dags/fetch_ldc_corpus.py
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@@ -0,0 +1,271 @@
+# pyright: reportTypedDictNotRequiredAccess=false
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+import hashlib
+import json
+import logging
+import re
+
+from http.cookiejar import MozillaCookieJar
+from mmap import mmap, ACCESS_READ
+from typing import Sequence
+
+import requests
+
+from airflow.sdk import Connection, Param, chain, dag, get_current_context, task
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from bs4.element import Tag
+from bs4._typing import _IncomingMarkup, _AtMostOneTag
+
+from mokelumne.util.storage import run_dir
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+@dag(
+    schedule=None,
+    catchup=False,
+    params={
+        "ldc_corpus": Param("", description="LDC Catalog ID", type="string")
+    },
+    tags=["ldsp"],
+)
+def fetch_ldc_corpus():
+    """
+    Fetch a corpus from the `Linguistic Data Consortium catalog`_.  LDC
+    does not provide an API, so we have to screenscrape into an authorized
+    session to fetch the list of available datasets.
+
+    This is effectively a reimplementation of `ldcdl`_ by Jonathan May and
+    Alex Hedges.
+
+    TODO: Integrate a destination directory for the downloaded files.
+
+    .. _Linguistic Data Consortium catalog: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/
+    .. _ldcdl: https://github.com/jonmay/ldcdl
+    """
+
+    def get_csrf_token(
+            markup: _IncomingMarkup, param_name: str="authenticity_token"
+        ) -> dict[str, str]:
+        """
+        Given HTML, extract the CSRF authenticity token and its parameter
+        name.
+
+        :param  markup: the incoming HTML markup to parse.
+        :type markup: bs4._typing._IncomingMarkup
+        :param param_name: the parameter name to look up and return
+        :type param_name: str
+        :returns: The parameter name and its value.
+        :rtype: dict[str, str]
+        """
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(markup=markup, features="html.parser")
+        tag = soup.find(name="input", attrs={"name": param_name})
+        if tag and tag.get("value"):
+            return {param_name: tag["value"]}  # pyright: ignore[reportReturnType]
+        return {}
+
+    @task
+    def authenticate_session() -> str:
+        """
+        Authenticate a browser session and persist the session's cookies to a 
+        cookiejar file.
+
+        :returns: Location of the cookiejar file.
+        :rtype: str
+        """
+        ctx = get_current_context()
+        cj = run_dir(ctx["run_id"]) / "cookies.txt"
+        conn = Connection.get("ldc")
+        login_url = f"{conn.host}/login"
+        session = requests.Session()
+        login_page = session.get(login_url)
+        form_data = get_csrf_token(login_page.text)
+        form_data["spree_user[login]"] = conn.login
+        form_data["spree_user[password]"] = conn.password
+        form_data["utf8"] = "✓"
+
+        login_request = requests.Request("POST", url=login_url, data=form_data)
+        prepped = session.prepare_request(login_request)
+        _ = session.send(prepped)
+        cookies = MozillaCookieJar(filename=cj)
+        for c in session.cookies:
+            cookies.set_cookie(c)
+        # LDC catalog checks for the presence of the `_xiexie` cookie,
+        # which is a session cookie. If not present, it automatically
+        # redirects to login.
+        cookies.save(ignore_discard=True)
+        return str(cj)
+
+
+    @task
+    def get_available_ldc_corpora(cookiejar) -> str:
+        """
+        Fetch the page listing the corpora available for download from the LDC
+        catalog. This is an HTML page cached locally for further parsing.
+
+        :param cookiejar: The path to a cookiejar file for LDC
+        :returns: Path to the HTML file fetched from LDC.
+        :rtype: str
+        """
+        cookies = MozillaCookieJar(filename=cookiejar)
+        cookies.load(ignore_discard=True)
+        ctx = get_current_context()
+        conn = Connection.get("ldc")
+        output = run_dir(ctx["run_id"]) / "corpora.html"
+        datasets_url = f"{conn.host}/organization/downloads"
+
+        with (requests.Session() as session, open(output, "wb") as outfile):
+            session.cookies = cookies  # pyright: ignore[reportAttributeAccessIssue]
+            request = requests.Request('GET', datasets_url)
+            prepped = session.prepare_request(request)
+            resp = session.send(prepped, stream=True)
+            for chunk in resp.iter_content(chunk_size=(8*1024)):
+                outfile.write(chunk)
+        
+        return str(output)
+
+
+    def scrape_corpus_metadata(tag: Tag) -> dict[str, str]:
+        """
+        Parse the HTML of a given table row to return structed metadata.
+
+        :param tag: a `<tr>` tag preparsed by BeautifulSoup.
+        :type tag: bs4.element.Tag
+        :returns: Structured metadata for a corpus. .
+        :rtype: dict[str, str]
+        """
+        cells = tag.find_all("td")
+        if len(cells) > 0:
+            catalog_id = cells[0].get_text(strip=True)
+            corpus_name = cells[1].get_text(strip=True)
+            # we don't want to get the invoice_date, because that leads to
+            # duplicate entries that are harder to filter.
+            download_link = cells[3].a["href"]   # pyright: ignore[reportOptionalSubscript]
+            # the technical metadata is not broken up into distinct cells, so
+            # we have to parse it more. the "file" metadata is also not 
+            # the true filename as returned by LDC. 
+            techmd = cells[4].get_text(strip=True, separator="\n").splitlines()
+            file, filesize, checksum = [
+                re.sub(r"^\s*(File Size|MD5 Checksum): ", "", t) for t in techmd
+            ]
+            return {
+                "catalog_id": catalog_id,
+                "corpus_name": corpus_name,
+                "download_link": download_link,  # pyright: ignore[reportReturnType]
+                "file": file,
+                "filesize": filesize,
+                "checksum": checksum
+            }
+        return {}
+
+    @task
+    def parse_corpora_metadata(corpora_file) -> Sequence[dict[str, str]]:
+        """
+        Parse the HTML of the catalog to create a structured representation for
+        further use. There is no API for LDC, so we are forced to screenscrape.
+
+        :param corpora_file: Location of the fetched downloads page.
+        :returns: Metadata for the available corpora. The keys of   
+            in the returned dict are the LDC Catalog IDs for each corpus. 
+        :rtype: dict[str, str] 
+        """
+        ctx = get_current_context()
+        corpora_json = run_dir(ctx["run_id"]) / "corpora.json"
+
+        with open(corpora_file) as page:
+            corpora_html = page.read()
+
+        data = BeautifulSoup(corpora_html, "html.parser")
+        rows = data.select("#user-corpora-download-table > tbody > tr")
+        corpora = [scrape_corpus_metadata(row) for row in rows]
+        
+        """
+        for c in corpora_rows:
+            data = c.find_all('td')
+            cid = data[0].get_text(strip=True)
+            if cid not in corpora:
+                corpora[cid] = {}
+            corpora[cid]["name"] = data[1].get_text(strip=True)
+            corpora[cid]["invoice_date"] = data[2].get_text(strip=True)
+            corpora[cid]["download_link"] = data[3].a["href"]
+
+            techmd = data[4].get_text(strip=True, separator="\n").splitlines()
+            corpora[cid]["filename"], corpora[cid]["filesize"], corpora[cid]["checksum"] = [
+                re.sub(r"^\s*(File Size|MD5 Checksum): ", "", t) for t in techmd
+            ]
+        """
+
+        with open(corpora_json, "w") as corpora_out:
+            corpora_out.write(json.dumps(corpora))
+
+        return corpora
+
+
+    @task.short_circuit
+    def corpus_is_available(corpora) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
+        """
+        Check to see if the requested corpus is listed in the set of corpora
+        avilable for download. Used to shortcircuit the ``fetch_ldc_corpus()``
+        task if the dataset is not available 
+
+        :param corpora: Metadata for the available corpora.
+        :returns: Whether the corpus is available for download.
+        :rtype: bool
+        """
+        ctx = get_current_context()
+        ldc_corpus = ctx["params"].get("ldc_corpus")
+        return ldc_corpus in corpora.keys()
+
+
+    @task
+    def download_corpus_from_ldc(cookiejar, available_corpora):
+        """
+        Download a corpus from the LDC catalog and verify that the MD5
+        checksum reported by LDC matches that of the downloaded file.
+
+        :param cookiejar: Location of the cookiejar file.
+        :param available_corpora: The metadata for the available corpora.
+        :returns: The location of the downloaded dataset file.
+        :rtype: str
+        """
+        cookies = MozillaCookieJar(cookiejar)
+        cookies.load(ignore_discard=True)
+        conn = Connection.get("ldc")
+        ctx = get_current_context()
+        corpus = ctx["params"].get("ldc_corpus")
+
+        corpus_metadata = available_corpora.get(corpus)
+        dl_uri = f"{conn.host}/{corpus_metadata.get("download_link")}"
+        logger.info("Fetching corpus %s: %s" % (corpus, corpus_metadata))
+
+        dest = run_dir(ctx["run_id"]) / corpus_metadata["filename"]
+
+        with (requests.Session() as session, open(dest, "wb") as out):
+            session.cookies = cookies   # pyright: ignore[reportAttributeAccessIssue]
+            request = requests.Request('GET', dl_uri)
+            prepped = session.prepare_request(request)
+            resp = session.send(prepped, stream=True)
+            for chunk in resp.iter_content(chunk_size=(8*1024)):
+                out.write(chunk)
+
+        with (
+            open(dest, "rb") as f,
+            mmap(f.fileno(), 0, access=ACCESS_READ) as f
+        ):
+            dl_checksum = hashlib.md5(f).hexdigest()
+
+        if dl_checksum != corpus_metadata["checksum"]:
+            logger.warning("Downloaded file's checksum %s does not match LDC checksum %s" % dl_checksum, corpus_metadata["checksum"])
+
+        return str(dest)
+
+
+    cookiejar = authenticate_session()
+    corpora_file = get_available_ldc_corpora(cookiejar)
+    available_corpora = parse_corpora_metadata(corpora_file)
+    chain(
+        corpus_is_available(available_corpora),
+        download_corpus_from_ldc(cookiejar, available_corpora)
+    )
+
+fetch_ldc_corpus()  # pyright: ignore[reportUnusedExpression]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fc9217d..94e5846 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "flask-appbuilder",
     "langchain[aws]",
     "langfuse",
+    "mechanize",
     "piffle",  # IIIF API used in batch image description DAG
     "pymarc",
     "python-tind-client",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9995863..a163781 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -797,6 +797,10 @@ h11==0.16.0 \
     # via
     #   httpcore
     #   uvicorn
+html5lib==1.1 \
+    --hash=sha256:0d78f8fde1c230e99fe37986a60526d7049ed4bf8a9fadbad5f00e22e58e041d \
+    --hash=sha256:b2e5b40261e20f354d198eae92afc10d750afb487ed5e50f9c4eaf07c184146f
+    # via mechanize
 httpcore==1.0.9 \
     --hash=sha256:2d400746a40668fc9dec9810239072b40b4484b640a8c38fd654a024c7a1bf55 \
     --hash=sha256:6e34463af53fd2ab5d807f399a9b45ea31c3dfa2276f15a2c3f00afff6e176e8
@@ -1206,6 +1210,10 @@ mdurl==0.1.2 \
     --hash=sha256:84008a41e51615a49fc9966191ff91509e3c40b939176e643fd50a5c2196b8f8 \
     --hash=sha256:bb413d29f5eea38f31dd4754dd7377d4465116fb207585f97bf925588687c1ba
     # via markdown-it-py
+mechanize==0.4.10 \
+    --hash=sha256:1dea947f9be7ea0ab610f7bbc4a4e36b45d6bfdfceea29ad3d389a88a1957ddf \
+    --hash=sha256:246e21aa30a74ca608c2a06a922454e699fcb37edc9b79fcbba0c67712c2ec79
+    # via mokelumne (pyproject.toml)
 methodtools==0.4.7 \
     --hash=sha256:5e188c780b236adc12e75b5f078c5afb419ef99eb648569fc6d7071f053a1f11 \
     --hash=sha256:e213439dd64cfe60213f7015da6efe5dd4003fd89376db3baa09fe13ec2bb0ba
@@ -2750,6 +2758,10 @@ watchfiles==1.1.1 \
     --hash=sha256:f8979280bdafff686ba5e4d8f97840f929a87ed9cdf133cbbd42f7766774d2aa \
     --hash=sha256:f9a2ae5c91cecc9edd47e041a930490c31c3afb1f5e6d71de3dc671bfaca02bf
     # via uvicorn
+webencodings==0.5.1 \
+    --hash=sha256:a0af1213f3c2226497a97e2b3aa01a7e4bee4f403f95be16fc9acd2947514a78 \
+    --hash=sha256:b36a1c245f2d304965eb4e0a82848379241dc04b865afcc4aab16748587e1923
+    # via html5lib
 websockets==16.0 \
     --hash=sha256:0298d07ee155e2e9fda5be8a9042200dd2e3bb0b8a38482156576f863a9d457c \
     --hash=sha256:04cdd5d2d1dacbad0a7bf36ccbcd3ccd5a30ee188f2560b7a62a30d14107b31a \