dan-and / packtpub-downloader

Script to download all your books from PacktPub inspired by https://github.com/ozzieperez/packtpub-library-downloader

PacktPub Downloader

Script to download all your PacktPub books inspired by https://github.com/ozzieperez/packtpub-library-downloader

Since PacktPub restructured their website packtpub-library-downloader became obsolete because the downloader used webscraping. So I figured out that now PacktPub uses a REST API. Then I found which endpoint to use for downloading books and made a simple script. Feel free to fork and PR to improve. Packtpub's API isn't documented :'(

Usage:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py -e <email> -p <password> [-d <directory> -b <book file types> -i <book ids> -l -s -v -q]

Example: Download books in PDF format

python main.py -e [e-mail] -p p@ssw0rd -d ~/Desktop/packt -b pdf

Commandline Options

• -e, --email = Your login email

• -p, --password = Your login password

• -d, --directory = Directory to download into. Default is "media/" in the current directory

• -b, --books = Assets to download. Options are: pdf,mobi,epub,code

• -i, --ids = Products to download by id, separated by commas (If not specified, all owned products will be downloaded)

• -n, --number = The number of most recently obtained books to check (This will be ignored when using -i)

• -l, --parallel = Download the books in parallel (implies -q)

• -s, --separate = Create a separate directory for each book

• -v, --verbose = Show more detailed information

• -q, --quiet = Don't show information or progress bars

  Please note that -v and -q override each other; the last argument passed to the script will be used.

Book File Types

• pdf: PDF format
• mobi: MOBI format
• epub: EPUB format
• code: Accompanying source code, saved as .zip files

I'm working on Python 3.6.0