diff --git a/scripts/geodata/whosonfirst/download_wof_postal_codes.py b/scripts/geodata/whosonfirst/download_wof_postal_codes.py
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+import gevent
+from gevent import monkey
+monkey.patch_all()
+
+import os
+import requests
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import ujson as json
+
+this_dir = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+sys.path.append(os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.pardir, os.pardir)))
+
+from geodata.whosonfirst.crawl import WhosOnFirstCrawler
+from geodata.file_utils import ensure_dir
+
+SEED_URLS_JSON = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data-postalcode/master/data.json'
+
+
+def clone_repo(wof_dir, repo):
+    repo_name = repo.rstrip('/').rsplit('/', 1)[-1]
+    repo_dir = os.path.join(wof_dir, repo_name)
+
+    subprocess.check_call(['rm', '-rf', repo_dir])
+    subprocess.check_call(['git', 'clone', repo, repo_dir])
+
+    return repo_dir
+
+
+def download_wof_postcodes(wof_dir):
+    ensure_dir(wof_dir)
+    crawler = WhosOnFirstCrawler(wof_dir)
+
+    response = requests.get(SEED_URLS_JSON)
+    if response.ok:
+        content = json.loads(response.content)
+
+        for d in content:
+            repo_name = d['name']
+
+            if int(d.get('count', 0)) > 0:
+                repo = d['url']
+                print('doing {}'.format(repo_name))
+
+                repo_dir = clone_repo(wof_dir, repo)
+
+                for i, postcode in enumerate(crawler.crawl(repo_dir)):
+                    if i % 100 == 0 and i > 0:
+                        print('downloaded {} postcodes from WoF'.format(i))
+            else:
+                print('skipping {}'.format(repo_name))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        sys.exit('Usage: python download_wof_postal_codes.py wof_base_dir')
+    download_wof_postcodes(sys.argv[1])