Springer Book Downloader

To download books released for free during the COVID-19 quarantine

Usage

Simple Usage - Download all books

Replace ./ebooks with the path to the folder where the books will be stored.

python3 springer_downloader.py ./ebooks --all

Advanced Usage - Download certain books

If you don't want to download everything then use the --genre to specify a genre or --title to specify a title. Partial matching is allowed. If you aren't sure the title or genre, use --list_genre to print out all available genres. Similarly, use --list_books to print out the titles of all books available to download or --list_books GENRE to see all books available to download from a particular genre.

python3 springer_downloader.py ../Downloads --genre "Computer Science"

Full Usage Details

usage: springer_downloader.py [-h] [--all] [--only_pdf ONLY_PDF] [--only_epub ONLY_EPUB] [--list_genres] [--list_books [LIST_BOOKS]] [--force] [--genre GENRE] [--title TITLE]
                              [-v] [--confirm_before_download CONFIRM_BEFORE_DOWNLOAD]
                              output_folder

positional arguments:
  output_folder         Folder to put downloaded books in

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --all                 Download all available book (both PDFs and EPUBs)
  --only_pdf ONLY_PDF   Downloads only PDFs
  --only_epub ONLY_EPUB
                        Downloads only EPUBs
  --list_genres         Lists out available genres
  --list_books [LIST_BOOKS]
                        Lists available books (add argument to show book by specified genre
  --force               Force download even if file exists
  --genre GENRE         Downloads only books from certain genre
  --title TITLE         Downloads only books contain argument in title
  -v, --verbose         Enables verbose mode
  --confirm_before_download CONFIRM_BEFORE_DOWNLOAD
                        Prompts user whether to download for each book

Running in Virtual Environment:

python3 -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 springer_downloader.py ./ebooks --all

Virtual environment on Windows (Python 3.x):

python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate.bat
pip install -r requirements.txt
python springer_downloader.py ./ebooks --all

Virtual environment on Windows (Python 2.7.x):

python -m virtualenv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate.bat
pip install -r requirements2x.txt
python springer_downloader.py ./ebooks --all

Docker container to do all the work

NOTE: This hasn't been tested on forked project

Considering you cloned the repo in a folder, as:

cd \home\[user]\workspace`
git clone https://github.com/melloa/springer_free_books.git
cd springer_free_books
mkdir downloads

You can run the scripts like that:

docker build . -t springer-image
docker run --rm -v [local_download_folder]:/app/downloads springer-image

and the downloads will be at [local_download_folder]

Examples

List available genres

python3 springer_downloader.py ../Downloads --list_genres

returns:

Available genre options:
  'Behavioral Science': 11 books
  'Behavioral Science and Psychology': 10 books
  'Biomedical and Life Sciences': 32 books
  'Business and Economics': 16 books
  'Business and Management': 25 books
  'Chemistry and Materials Science': 33 books
  'Computer Science': 49 books
  'Earth and Environmental Science': 10 books
  'Economics and Finance': 5 books
  'Education': 9 books
  'Energy': 10 books
  'Engineering': 36 books
  'Humanities, Social Sciences and Law': 10 books
  'Intelligent Technologies and Robotics': 7 books
  'Law and Criminology': 9 books
  'Literature, Cultural and Media Studies': 9 books
  'Mathematics and Statistics': 56 books
  'Medicine': 8 books
  'Physics and Astronomy': 43 books
  'Religion and Philosophy': 10 books
  'Social Sciences': 9 books

Download all books from genre

python3 springer_downloader.py ../Downloads --genre "Computer Science"

will download all books in the computer science genre

List books in a genre

python3 springer_downloader.py ../../Downloads --list_books Medicine

returns:

List of available books:
  1. Biomedical Informatics
  2. Breast Cancer
  3. Cardiovascular Biomechanics
  4. Evidence-Based Critical Care
  5. Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine
  6. Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases
  7. Spine Surgery
  8. The ASCRS Textbook of Colon and Rectal Surgery

Building GUI

Command used to build on MacOS pyinstaller --onefile -w springer_downloader_gui.spec

Sources:

Thanks Springer!

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