optionalg / packtpubdownloaderandgetter

Small tool allowing you to download Packtpub.com ebooks from a registered account. Now automatically acquires the ebook to your account.

Packtpub Downloader + Getter

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Packtpub Downloader is a small tool that allows any registered account to automatically download all the ebooks (ps: more options to come). It will download everything: .pdf, .mobi, .epub and the zip file if any.

How to use

It is always better to create a virtual environment to isolate Python environments.

Assuming you already have a working Python environment set up, open up a terminal and refer to the virtualenv webpage to set up everything.

Installing the dependencies

Now that you have the sourced the environment, run the following to install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Using Packtpub Download

The username and password are mandatory:

python pbdl.py -u [email protected] -p mypassword

I've set up multiple arguments for you to provide, those can be shown using the following command:

python pbdl.py --help

Using Packtpub Getter

The username and password are mandatory:

python pbdl.py -u [email protected] -p mypassword

I've set up multiple arguments for you to provide, those can be shown using the following command:

python pbdl.py --help

What for?

Packtpub.com has a free ebook available each day, I didn't want to download my 100+ ebooks I had on my account, so I developed this.

If you feel in the same situation, feel free to use this :)

Changelogs

pbdl.py (Downloads the ebook)

v0.5 (March 22, 2017)

• [FEATURE] Adds a check if the file has been already downloaded before (so it won't download it again)
• [FIXED] Identation (2 spaces)

v0.3 (October 06, 2016)

• [FIXED] Hotfix on UTF-8 encoding

v0.2 (October 06, 2016)

• [FIXED] Some URL weren't downloading
• [IMPROVED] CLI is now almost beautiful
• [IMPROVED] Speed

v0.1 (October 06, 2016)

• First version, some things are working.

pbget.py (Acquires today's ebook to your account)

v0.1 (April 25, 2017)

• First version, some things are working. --sms for smaller output (only stdout the ebook name or error if any).

Development

Want to contribute? Great! You're welcome to make some pull requests!

Todos

• Not much, maybe a multithreading downloader

License

MIT

Free Software, Hell Yeah!