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Yep. I made a simple one in Bash even! (Do not recommend.)
You should've used recutils probably :) https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/
TIL!
Sharding would be so easy! Just run "split" and spread the chunks over a bunch of servers, then run "recutils" with "parallel" to retrieve!
Truly webscale.