A friend asked for some help downloading some e-books. Found this great script but fumbled for 15 minutes before figuring it out that I needed to att the URL manually inside the script. I just (badly) added support for arguments to the script.
During the early stages of lockdown, Oxford provided all of their educational books for free online. As an IB student, I saw this and thought that the books could genuinly be useful to me. Unfortunately this offer was on for a limited time, meaning that I needed to find a method of downloading these books.
To install files:
git clone https://github.com/whoisoscar/calameo-downloader
To Install Required Modules:
pip install -r requirements.txt
cd calmeo-downloader
python3 main.py
Configurations are done within the main.py file. These configurations include:
- List of book links
- Option to only download PDF version
Given a list of calmeo.com books, the script will go through all the pages and dowload them.
If only_pdf is set to false, the script will download both a SVG and PVG version.
This is done for personal preference as SVG's allow to search and copy text, but are more heavy-weight.
Onece all files are downloaded, the script combines all files into one PDF.
Setting only_pdf to true will take significantly less time as SVG's take a long time to download.
You can enter multiple urls within the list and the script will download all of them.
- Clean up code and remove abundant / repetetive code.