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 ### Direct Use
 
-<!-- This section describes suitable use cases for the dataset. -->
+```python
+from typing import List, Optional
+from huggingface_hub import list_repo_files, hf_hub_url
+
+def get_files_for_lang_and_years(languages: List[str], min_year:Optional[int]= None, max_year:Optional[int] = None):
+    files = list_repo_files("biglam/europeana_newspapers",repo_type='dataset')
+    parquet_files = [f for f in files if f.endswith(".parquet")]
+    parquet_files_filtered_for_lang = [f for f in parquet_files if any(lang in f for lang in ['uk', 'fr'])]
+    filtered_files = [f for f in parquet_files if 
+                  (min_year is None or min_year <= int(f.split('-')[1].split('.')[0])) and 
+                  (max_year is None or int(f.split('-')[1].split('.')[0]) <= max_year)]
+    return [hf_hub_url("biglam/europeana_newspapers", f, repo_type='dataset') for f in filtered_files]
+```
+
+```python
+ds = load_dataset("parquet", data_files=get_files_for_lang_and_years(['fr']), num_proc=4)
+```
 
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