Bulk downloader for free ebooks hosted at Project Gutenberg.
Project Gutenberg has a sort of webservice; the protocol is explained here.
Follow the steps in order to create a local development copy in a Linux/Mac OS machine.
- Create a project folder in your workspace
$ mkdir gutenberg-bulk-downloader
$ cd gutenberg-bulk-downloader
We will refer to this folder as repository root.
- Clone the reposiotry
$ git clone https://github.com/nimiq/gutenberg-bulk-downloader.git .
- Create a virtual environment
You can create virtual environments using Virtualenvwrapper or Virtualenv. I usually use Virtualenvwrapper in development and Virtualenv in production.
$ mkvirtualenv gutenberg-bulk-downloader
$ virtualenv ve
- Install the requirements
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run a download session
$ python manage.py --f pdf --lang en --n 100
$ python manage.py --help
usage: manage.py [-h]
[--file-type {txt,pdf,html,epub.images,epub.noimages,kindle.images,kindle.noimages,mp3}]
[--lang LANG] [--n-ebooks N_EBOOKS]
Downloads free ebooks from Project Gutenberg.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--file-type {txt,pdf,html,epub.images,epub.noimages,kindle.images,kindle.noimages,mp3}
Filter by file types.
--lang LANG Ebook language.
--n-ebooks N_EBOOKS Number of ebooks to download (default: 100).
E.g. download .txt and .pdf files, English and German language, max 500 files:
$ python manage.py --file-type pdf --file-type txt --lang en --lang de --n-ebooks 500
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