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Download PDF links from a webpage

Project description

pdf_hunter

Search for and download PDF file links from a webpage.

Installation

This has been tested using Python 3 and Python 2.7.

pip install pdf_hunter

Usage

import pdf_hunter

url = "https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md"
pdf_urls = pdf_hunter.get_pdf_urls(url)
pdf_urls[:10]

['https://people.gnome.org/~swilmet/glib-gtk-dev-platform.pdf', 'https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AlgoComp.pdf', 'http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/110/BinaryTrees.pdf', 'http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61b/fa14/book2/data-structures.pdf', 'http://lib.mdp.ac.id/ebook/Karya%20Umum/Dsa.pdf', 'http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/103/LinkedListBasics.pdf', 'http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/105/LinkedListProblems.pdf', 'http://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook.pdf', 'http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf', 'http://igm.univ-mlv.fr/~mac/REC/text-algorithms.pdf']

We can download a single PDF file from a given url

pdf_url = pdf_urls[0]
pdf_url

'https://people.gnome.org/~swilmet/glib-gtk-dev-platform.pdf'

file_name = pdf_hunter.get_pdf_name(pdf_url)
file_name

'glib-gtk-dev-platform.pdf'

import os

os.path.isfile(file_name)

False

pdf_hunter.download_file(pdf_url, folder_path=os.getcwd())

os.path.isfile(file_name)

True

Or download all PDF files from the page

pdf_hunter.download_pdf_files(url, folder_path=os.getcwd())

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