franznemeth / ooen-downloader

Oberösterreichische Nachrichten ePaper downloader

ooen-downloader

Automatic downloader for Oberösterreichische Nachrichten Epaper Newspaper.

Introduction

This application uses selenium to download the daily issue of OÖNachrichten. The ooen-downloader automatically logs in and downloads every edition and saves it locally. It requires and active subscription of OÖN.

Requirements

• python 3.9
• pip
• Selenium python bindings
• firefox web browser
• geckodriver for selenium https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Usage

You can run this script manually if you have all requirements present on your system or just run the container.

It supports the following environment variables as configuration:

Variable	Description	Type	Default
OOEN_DOWNLOAD_DIR	Directory to download the newspaper pdfs to	str	/download
OOEN_USERNAME	E-Mail or username of your subscription (NOTE: I did not test this with OIDC or Google Login	str	None
OOEN_PASSWORD	Password of your subscription	str	None
DEBUG	If this variable is set to True it will display additional output and disable headless mode for the browser for debugging purposes	bool	False

To run this locally install the prerequisites mentioned above and run pip install -r requirements.txt. Then you just have to set the environment variables and run python3 ./main.py.

To run this in a container you can get started using the following command:

podman run -it --rm \
  -v `pwd`/ooen:/download \
  -e OOEN_USERNAME=<username or email> \
  -e OOEN_PASSWORD=<password> \ 
  --name ooen-downloader \
  ghcr.io/franznemeth/ooen-downloader:v0.0.2

If you want to run this as a scheduled job in kubernetes see the examples in /deploy/kubernetes.