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Got this email several hours ago:

Whilst we finish getting ready for the reveal, we've temporarily paused Deal of the Day. Instead, every day we're giving you the chance to claim some free eBooks and today's free titles are all about web development.

And they are adding captcha in unregistered access.

I cant find the list of download links in this new free download program. I think it can only available from email they send.

I think the correct hour in crontab is 25 0 * * *, if you are using UTC/BST timezone in your server. I have compared date output with countdown clock in packt's website, and conclude this solution.

Here is my crontab settings:
25 0 * * * /usr/bin/nodejs /home/user/grab_packt/server.js >> /tmp/cron_output

When I runned the "run.bat" file to test if this thing it's working I got this error:

`
C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\GitHub\grab_packt>run.bat
module.js:327
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'dotenv'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename module.js:325:15
at Function.Module._load module.js:276:25
at Module.require module.js:353:17
at require <internal/module.js:12:17>
at Object. <C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\GitHub\gran_pack\Server.js:1:63>
at Module._compile module.js:409:26
at Object.Module._extensions..js module.js:416:10
at Module.load module.js:343:32
at Function.Module._load module.js:441:10

C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\GitHub\grab_packt>
`
And that's all, output.txt it's also empty.

OS Information: Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Build 7601, x64, SP1
Node.js Information: MSI Installer, Current version: v4.4.7 (includes npm 2.15.8), nothing special done to it, just next, next, next, finish.

Any help?

Hi, How to run this as service in the background?
so when the server restart it start automatically

You need to run npm install in the directory before running node server.js otherwise you get the following error (on Windows):

module.js:338
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'request'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (c:\inetpub\wwwroot\grab_packt\server.js:1:77)
    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)

Create a flag for the script that will download a log of all the books from your account.
The user should be able to specify what data they want in the log.
ie: book_name, author, etc

This python project has this feature:
https://github.com/igbt6/Packt-Publishing-Free-Learning

Create a flag for the script that will download all the books from your account.

This python project has this feature:
https://github.com/igbt6/Packt-Publishing-Free-Learning

Is there any problem lately?

From Step 3 Using Node:

watch -n 5000 --differences node server.js

Msg:

> Watching /Users/name/scripts/grab_packt
sh: server.js: command not found

Are you using this package?
https://github.com/mikeal/watch

If so I cannot find a reference to -n or --differences in the README.

when I

watch -n 5000 --difference node server.js

It says

sh: 1: node: not found

have I done something wrong?

Since yesterday, Packt has stopped offering the free eBook of the day as part of their free learning programme. As of now, the same URL displays a page where you can sign up for the new deal: 10 days of free access to their entire catalog. As such, this software is no longer functional. I guess it would be best to update the README to reflect this.

Thanks for creating this. It was much appreciated.

It was working until today and i've started getting this error...

----------- Packt Grab Started -----------
Request Error
----------- Packt Grab Done --------------