The present script - parse_books.py allows to download books datas (book title, genre, comments, cover, book text) from inputed link. This script parse the books from inputed interval id. The books ID interval entered at the same time when the code is run, in command line. So, this script is a classic parser HTML pages.

Python3 should be already installed. Then use pip (or pip3, if there is a conflict with Python2) to install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

For correctly script work, you must create .env file in the script directory. This file have to consider one line with parsing URL. The example of this line below:

URL_FOR_DOWNLOADING=https://tululu.org/

For script running you have to start the command line and change directory to the code containing. The next step is start the script for this template:

[full_dir_path] python parse_books.py [start_book_id] [end_book_id]

For example:

d:\CODING\DEVMAN\Online_Library>python parse_books.py 20 30

As results you get .txt files with books content to /books/ directory. Also the books cover images downloads to /images/ directory. You don't have to create these directories before.

The code is written for educational purposes on online-course for web-developers dvmn.org.