Speedup first time loading of RIT catalog

[vaishakp]

I was wondering if its possible to speedup the first time download/ load of RIT catalog using parallel requests. As I understand, the catalog presently downloads the metadata serially. It takes about half a day to download the catalog.

Would it be possible to cut down this time using wget's parallel download (using a constructed list of urls) or multiple processes?

[adivijaykumar]

I have been using https://gist.github.com/adivijaykumar/8eb4ea175c03893ebdeb2b4e38a73a8a to wget all files to the cache directory.