springerdl 1.3-dev

Download whole books from link.springer.com

Springer Link Downloader

A fork of Thomas Vogt’s “Springer Link Downloader”. Adds easier installation through a more standard setup.py and SOCKS-proxy support.

Installation

Preferably in a virtual environment, install using PyPi:

pip install springerdl

Usage

springerdl 978-0-8176-8325-2 will fetch you “A Concise Introduction to Linear Algebra”. Note that the ISBN is the so-called “Online ISBN”, which differs from the print ISBN.

An interesting use-case is downloading books through an SSH tunnel, if your university has access to SpringerLink but you at home haven’t. Assuming you have an SSH-account on student.hardknocks.edu, you can set up an SSH-tunnel like this:

ssh -D 8888 [e-mail]

After that, open another terminal and run:

springerdl -D 8888 978-0-8176-8325-2

This will connect through the SOCKS-tunnel created by SSH and will make the download request look as if it was coming from your university.

Run springerdl --help for a list of options. Happy reading.

LICENSE

Original Source (and therefore this derivation as well):

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of VERSION 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation provided that the above copyright notice is included.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Go to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html to get a copy of the license.