springer-dl: download the set of books Springer released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak
- bypasses Google captcha
- supports PDF and EPUB book formats
- sorts by title, includes ISBN in filename
- filtering for categories and titles. The entire set is ~10GB. Be a good citizen.
- no external dependencies
usage:
$ python springer_dl.py --help
usage: springer_dl.py [-h] --path PATH [-t FILTER_TITLE] [-c FILTER_CATEGORY]
[--pretty] [--dryrun]
springer-dl: download the set of books Springer released for free during the
2020 COVID-19 outbreak
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--path PATH path to download books
-t FILTER_TITLE, --filter-title FILTER_TITLE
Keywords to filter category
-c FILTER_CATEGORY, --filter-category FILTER_CATEGORY
Keywords to filter book title
--pretty Pretty print the books.
--dryrun Print the list of links and titles. Don't download.$ ls -R books/
'books/Understanding Statistics Using R':
'Understanding Statistics Using R - 978-1-4614-6227-9.epub'
'Understanding Statistics Using R - 978-1-4614-6227-9.pdf'Filter by category and only print the books
$ python springer_dl.py --path downloads --dryrun -c "computer" --pretty
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href : http://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-662-44874-8
isbn : 978-3-662-44874-8
category : Computer Science
title : Introduction to Evolutionary Computing
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href : http://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-13072-9
isbn : 978-3-319-13072-9
category : Computer Science
title : Data Structures and Algorithms with Python
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