nianhbg / rpipress-downloader

Download Raspberry Pi Press issues

rpipress-downloader

Download Raspberry Pi Press issues.

Freely available magazines are:

HackSpace, HelloWorld and MagPi

Remember that you can find these resources for free only thanks to people around the world supporting them. You too can support their work either by buying physical copies or by making a contribution of any size.

By default rpipress-downloader downloads only the latest issue of each magazine. However you can download all issues, all books for all or some magazines.

Issues and books are saved respectively in

• ~/rpipress/{magazine}
• ~/rpipress/{magazine}/Books

or, using the snap, in

• ~/snap/rpipress-downloader/current/rpipress/{magazine},
• ~/snap/rpipress-downloader/current/rpipress/{magazine}/Books.

Installation

From source

git clone https://github.com/artivis/rpipress-downloader.git
cd rpipress-downloader
python3 -m pip install -U .

Snap

sudo snap install rpipress-downloader

Use

By default, invoking rpipress-downloader will download only the latest issue for each magazine if they are not already available locally.

You can:

• download issues only for one (or several) magazine(s),

  rpipress-downloader --magazines magpi hackspace

• download all issue of each magazine,

  rpipress-downloader --all

• download all books,

  rpipress-downloader --books

• download to a specific base path,

  rpipress-downloader --path /home/ubuntu/Documents

• combine options,

  rpipress-downloader -a -m magpi -b -p /home/ubuntu/Documents

will download all MagPi issues and books in /home/ubuntu/Documents/rpipress/MagPi.

Options

$ rpipress-downloader -h
usage: rpipress-downloader [-h] [-a] [-b] [-m {hackspace,helloworld,magpi} [{hackspace,helloworld,magpi} ...]] [-p PATH] [-q]

Download Raspberry Pi Press issues.

Freely available magazines are: HackSpace, HelloWorld, MagPi.

By default `rpipress-downloader` downloads only the latest issue of each
magazine. However you can download all issues, all books for all or some magazines.

By default, issues and books are saved respectively in
- `~/rpipress/{magazine}`
- `~/rpipress/{magazine}/Books`

or, using the snap, in
- `~/snap/rpipress-downloader/current/rpipress/{magazine}`,
- `~/snap/rpipress-downloader/current/rpipress/{magazine}/Books`.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a, --all             Download all issues
  -b, --books           Download the magazine books
  -m {hackspace,helloworld,magpi} [{hackspace,helloworld,magpi} ...], --magazines {hackspace,helloworld,magpi} [{hackspace,helloworld,magpi} ...]
                        Choose which magazine(s) to download. Defaults to all.
  -p PATH, --path PATH  Set the download path. Defaults to ~/rpipress or ~/snap/rpipress-downloader/current/rpipress.
  -q, --quiet           No prints