Bulk Springer Textbook Downloader
Project description
springer
Springer Textbook Bulk Download Tool
NOTICE
The author of this software is not affiliated with Springer and this tool is not authorized or supported by Springer. Thank you to Springer for making these high quality textbooks available at no cost.
"With the Coronavirus outbreak having an unprecedented impact on education, Springer Nature is launching a global program to support learning and teaching at higher education institutions worldwide. Remote access to educational resources has become essential. We want to support lecturers, teachers and students during this challenging period and hope that this initiative will go some way to help.
Institutions will be able to access more than 500 key textbooks across Springer Nature’s eBook subject collections for free. In addition, we are making a number of German-language Springer medical training books on emergency nursing freely accessible. These books will be available via SpringerLink until at least the end of July."
Overview
This tool automates the process of downloading the Springer-provided Excel catalogs, locating URLs and downloading the files in PDF or epub format.
Catalogs are lists of books in a specific language, spanning a topic. Catalogs are further subdivided into packages which are books grouped by sub-topics.
Textbooks can be downloaded by; title, package name or the entire catalog. Title and package names can be incompletely specified and are case-insensitive.
The available languages are: English & German.
The available topics are: All Disciplines and Emergency Nursing.
Note: The Emergency Nursing topic is not available in English.
Installation
This utility can be installed using pip
:
$ python3 -m pip install springer
Or from the latest source on GitHub:
$ python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/JnyJny/springer_downloader
The source is available on GitHub.
Usage:
$ springer [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
-L, --lang [en|de]
: Choose catalog language-T, --topic [all|med]
: Choose a catalog topic.--install-completion
: Install completion for the current shell.--show-completion
: Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or customize the installation.--help
: Show this message and exit.
Commands:
clean-catalog
: Remove cached catalogs.download
: Download textbooks from Springer.get-default-catalog
: Print the default catalog identifier.list
: List books, package, packages, catalog or...refresh-catalog
: Refresh the cached catalog of springer...set-default-catalog
: Set default catalog language and topic.
springer clean-catalog
Remove cached catalogs.
Examples
Remove the cached default catalog:
$ springer clean-catalog --force
Remove the cached German language Emergency Nursing catalog:
$ springer --language de --topic med clean-catalog --force
Remove all catalogs:
$ springer clean-catalog --force --all
Usage:
$ springer clean-catalog [OPTIONS]
Options:
-F, --force
--all
--help
: Show this message and exit.
springer download
Download textbooks from Springer.
This command will download all the textbooks found in the catalog of free textbooks provided by Springer. The default file format is PDF and the files are saved by default to the current working directory.
If a download is interrupted, you can re-start the download and it will skip over files that have been previously downloaded and pick up where it left off.
If the --all option is specified, the --dest-path option specifies the root directory where files will be stored. Each catalog will save it's textbooks to:
dest_path/language/topic/book_file_name.fmt
Errors encountered during the download will be logged to a file named:
dest_path/DOWNLOAD_REPORT.txt
Examples
Download all books in PDF format to the current directory:
$ springer download
Download all books in EPUB format to the current directory:
$ springer download --format epub
Download all books in PDF format to a directory pdfs
:
$ springer download --dest-path pdfs
Download books in PDF format to pdfs
with overwriting:
$ springer download --dest-path pdfs --over-write
Download all books in PDF from the German/All_Disciplines catalog:
$ springer --language de --topic all download --dest-path german/all/pdfs
Download all books from all catelogs in epub format:
$ springer download --all --format epub
Download all books in the 'Computer Science' package in pdf format:
$ springer download --package-name computer
Usage:
$ springer download [OPTIONS]
Options:
-t, --book-title TEXT
: Book title to match (partial title OK)-p, --package-name TEXT
: Package name to match (partial name OK).-f, --format [pdf|epub]
: [default: pdf]-d, --dest-path PATH
: Destination directory for downloaded files. [default: /Users/ejo/local/springer]-W, --over-write
: Over write downloaded files. [default: False]--all
: Downloads books from all catalogs.--help
: Show this message and exit.
springer get-default-catalog
Print the default catalog identifier.
This is the default catalog that will be used when listing books and packages and the user has not specified a --language or --topic on the command line.
Usage:
$ springer get-default-catalog [OPTIONS]
Options:
--help
: Show this message and exit.
springer list
List books, package, packages, catalog or catalogs.
Display information about books, packages, and catalogs. Packages are sets of books grouped by subject.
Examples
List titles available in the default catalog:
$ springer list books
List packages available in the default catalog:
$ springer list packages
List titles available in the German language, all disciplines catalog:
$ springer --language de --topic all list books
List all eBook packages in the default catalog:
$ springer list packages
List all eBook packages in the default catalog whose name match:
$ springer list package -m science
List information about the current catalog:
$ springer list catalog
List information about the Germal language, Emergency Nursing catalog:
$ springer --language de --topic med list catalog
Usage:
$ springer list [OPTIONS] [catalogs|catalog|packages|package|books]
Options:
-m, --match TEXT
: String used for matching.-l, --long-format
: Display selected information in a longer format. [default: False]--help
: Show this message and exit.
springer refresh-catalog
Refresh the cached catalog of springer textbooks.
If --all
is specified, the --url
option is ignored.
Examples
Update English language catalog:
$ springer --language en refresh
Update German language catalog whose topic is 'all':
$ springer --language de --topic all refresh
Update German language catalog whose topic is 'med' with a new url:
$ springer -l de -d med refresh --url https://example.com/api/endpoint/something/v11
NOTE: THIS URL DOES NOT REPLACE THE DEFAULT URL FOR THE TARGET CATALOG
Update all catalogs:
$ springer refresh-catalog --all
Usage:
$ springer refresh-catalog [OPTIONS]
Options:
-u, --url TEXT
: URL for Excel-formatted catalog.--all
--help
: Show this message and exit.
springer set-default-catalog
Set default catalog language and topic.
Examples
Set the default catalog to German language:
$ springer --language de set-default-catalog
Set the default catalog to German and emergency nursing:
$ springer --language de --topic med set-default-catalog
Set the default catalog to English and all disciplines topic:
$ springer --language en --topic all set-default-catalog
Note: The only English language catalog is en-all
.
Usage:
$ springer set-default-catalog [OPTIONS]
Options:
--help
: Show this message and exit.
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