I've tried to fix the issues arised by @hamensman that keeps downloading the first page, but later while debugging I found out that it looks like archive.org has disabled the "downloading-by-link-iteration" method, so there's no fix, and there will be no more from me.
This is a modified and improved version of the harrcor's repository.
The script is most useful to be used on a protected book that needs to be borrowed, and that you can't download it by using the encrypted epub/pdf links. So, this script will download the image of the borrowed book one by one.
- Operating system: Linux or Windows
I used Linux to modify this script, so in order to use Windows, you will need to change this one line from
driver = webdriver.Chrome("./chromedriver", options=chrome_options)
to
driver = webdriver.Chrome("./chromedriver.exe", options=chrome_options) - Python 3.x
- Git
This script depends on these few libraries:
-
selenium
pip3 install selenium -
requests
pip3 install requests -
Chrome WebDriver If you use Linux, then use the Linux version, same as Windows, use the Windows version.
You will need to clone the repostory by using the git clone command on Linux, or you can use GitHub Desktop application on Windows, or you can do whatever you want to clone it.
On Linux, open your terminal and change to your current working directory.
Then, you will need to execute this command to run the script.
python3 scraper.py
Fill in the details in order to download your book.
On Windows, open your command prompt and change to your current working directory.
Then, you will need to execute this command to run the script.
python3 scraper.py
Fill in the details in order to download your book.
Your archive.org email account: foo@gmail.com
Your archive.org password: bar123
Your archive.org book link: https://archive.org/details/computationalmet00hann_0
Your download directory/folder (relative to your current working directory): ./book/computationalmet00hann_0
Your pages that will be downloaded: 488
Your quality of images, from 0-10 (lower is better): 0
- JPG to PDF converter and combiner into a single file.
- Make a GUI, if possible and have all the time in the world.
- Tweaks and stuff.