Download AccreDidact in PDF format
Project description
Download AccreDidact in PDF format
A command line tool and library to download AccreDidact in PDF format
Introduction
AccreDidact is a Dutch magazine for continuing medical education for psychiatrists.
This package provides a Python libary and command line tool for convenient downloading of the online contents.
Installation
If you have Python on your system you can do the usual:
$ pip install accredidact-downloader
Quickstart
Command line usage examples
List all issues in the current year. For listing only, no authentication is required.
$ accredidact-downloader -l
List all issues in the years 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008:
$ accredidact-downloader -l -y 2002 2004 2006-2008
Download the latest issue to the default download-directory. For downloading, a username and password is required for authentication.
$ accredidact-downloader -u username -p password -d
Download the issues with the IDs 2022-4 and 2022-5 to the ~/Downloads download-directory. An ID is composed of the year and number of the issue.
$ accredidact-downloader -u username -p password -d -i 2022-4 2022-5 -w ~/Downloads
Email the latest issue:
$ accredidact-downloader -e -u username -p password --smtp_host smtp.example.com --smtp_port 587 --smtp_username user@example.com --smtp_password <password> --sender user@example.com --recipient info@example.com
Show command line help::
$ accredidact-downloader -h
Configuration File
The configuration file config.ini
can change the default values for command line options. It should be written using a standard INI style. The keys should be grouped into sections. For now, the name of the sections are ignored. The section name appears on a line by itself, in square brackets ([ and ]). Configuration files may include comments, prefixed by # or ;. Comments may appear on their own on an otherwise empty line, possibly indented.
Location
The config.ini
configuration file should be put in the default config directory. This location is different on different operating systems. A custom configuration file can be provided with the --config
argument.
-
Linux:
$HOME/.config/accredidact-downloader/config.ini
, which respects theXDG_CONFIG_HOME
environment variable. -
MacOS:
$HOME/Library/Application Support/accredidact-downloader/config.ini
-
Windows:
%APPDATA%\accredidact-downloader\config.ini
Precedence / Override order
Command line options override the values in a configuration file.
Example config.ini
; This is a comment
# This is another comment
[settings] ; a section marker is required in INI files
verbose = True
download_dir = /home/folkert/Downloads
username = <username> ; username for authentication with https://www.accredidact.nl/
password = <password> ; password
smtp_host = smtp.example.com ; host name or ip address of the SMTP server
smtp_port = 587 ; port of the SMTP server
smtp_username = user@example.com ; accountname, username, or email address of your email account for authentication
smtp_password = <password> ; password of your email account for authentication.
sender = user@example.com
recipient = info@example.com
Download
When an issue is downloaded, it is copied to the default download directory. This location is different on different operating systems. A custom download directory can be provided with the --download_dir
argument.
Location
-
macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/accredidact-downloader
-
Windows:
%APPDATA%\accredidact-downloader
-
Linux (and other Unices):
~/.local/share/accredidact-downloader
You can send an automated email message with the downloaded PDF as an attachment, for example to send it to your Kindle. To use this feature, the --email
argument should be provided to the command line tool, along with the required arguments: --smtp_host
, --smtp_port
, --smtp_username
, --smtp_password
, --sender
, and --recipient
. This option presumes the --download
argument.
Please note that if you use 2-step-verification in a Gmail-account, you might need an App Password (see https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833)
Changelog
[0.1.1] - 2022-08-01
- Fix arguments
- Correct Windows default download directory in README
- Fix handling of subject and body arguments
[0.1.0] - 2022-03-01
- First release on PyPI.
Author
- Folkert van der Beek - https://gitlab.com/fvdbeek
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