mkohlhaas / Safari-Books-Sample

Example how to download books from Learning Oreilly with standard tools.

1. Install Chrome Extensions:

• Get cookies.txt
• WebScrapBook
• Tampermonkey

2. Create the download script:

• Log in to Learning Oreilly and use the Get Cookies.txt Extension to download the current cookie with all the browser and login information.
• Use WebScrapBook Extension, menu entry Batch capture selected links to create a list of websites to download and copy them to the download script dl.sh. Do not forget to download the index.html page. Only directory needed not the index.html file itself.
• Run the download script: $bash dl.sh
• When loading the index.html file from the local storage system you can remove some useless DOM elements from the webpage by right-clicking and selecting the Tampermonkey entry.

3. Tampermonkey

• Tampermonkey is in the repository for reference and can be loaded into the extension. Tampermonkey -> Dashboard -> Click + to create the script.
• In the Tampermonkey advanced settings you have to enable local file access: Settings -> Security -> Allow scripts to allow local files -> All local files -> Press Save button.