ifq

CLI tool and Python library to download PDF issues of ilfattoquotidiano.it

Installation

Install this tool using pip:

pip install ifq

Usage

Download the IFQ issue for Jan, 2nd 2025:

# Requires a valid subscription to the newspaper
export IFQ_USERNAME="[your username]"
export IFQ_PASSWORD="[your password]"

$ ifq issues download 2025-01-02

Downloading issue for 2025-01-02 00:00:00 to /Users/zmoog/code/projects/zmoog/ifq
Downloaded issue to /Users/zmoog/code/projects/zmoog/ifq/2025-01-02.pdf

$ file 2025-01-02.pdf 
2025-01-02.pdf: PDF document, version 1.7

For help, run:

ifq --help

You can also use:

python -m ifq --help

Development

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd ifq
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

python -m pytest