Re: FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer

I re-ran the full download suite this morning, using a different method
and 18 books were unable to be downloaded but 390 were successful:
On a different Ubuntu box (18.04) I did the following$ pip3 install
pandas
$ pip3 install wget
$ pip3 install requests
$ pip3 install xlrd
$ mkdir -p springer-python/download
$ cd springer-python
$ cp ~/Downloads/Free+English+textbooks.xlsx .
$ cat download-textbooks.py import requests, wgetimport pandas as pddf
= pd.read_excel("Free+English+textbooks.xlsx")for index, row in
df.iterrows():        # loop through the excel list        file_name =
f"{row.loc['Book Title']}_{row.loc['Edition']}".replace('/','-
').replace(':','-')        url = f"{row.loc['OpenURL']}"        r =
requests.get(url)        download_url =
f"{r.url.replace('book','content/pdf')}.pdf"        wget.download(downl
oad_url, f"./download/{file_name}.pdf")        print(f"downloading
{file_name}.pdf Complete ....")
$ python3 ./download-textbooks.py
The 18 books that failed showed up in the output as (sorted)-1 /
unknowndownloading A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming_1st ed.
2019.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Algebra_3rd ed. 2002.pdf
Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Clinical Neuroanatomy_2008.pdf
Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Data Science and Predictive
Analytics_1st ed. 2018.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading
Electricity and Magnetism_2014.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading
Geomorphology of Desert Environments_2nd ed. 2009.pdf Complete ....-1 /
unknowndownloading Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy_3rd ed.
2006.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Integrated
Neuroscience_2003.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Introduction
to Partial Differential Equations_2014.pdf Complete ....-1 /
unknowndownloading Java in Two Semesters_4th ed. 2019.pdf Complete
....-1 / unknowndownloading Pharmaceutical Biotechnology_5th ed.
2019.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Plant Anatomy_1st ed.
2018.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Plate Tectonics_2011.pdf
Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Primer on the Rheumatic
Diseases_13th ed. 2008.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading
Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy_3rd ed. 2006.pdf Complete ....-
1 / unknowndownloading Principles of Physics_2012.pdf Complete ....-1 /
unknowndownloading Robotics, Vision and Control_2nd ed. 2017.pdf
Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Robotics, Vision and
Control_2011.pdf Complete ....
I ran this a second time with just the 18 failed books in a new
Free+English+textbooks.xlsx fileand they failed again with the same
error.
Fortunately I believe my initial downloads last Thursday grabbed good
copies of these 18 files as the original downloads were significantly
larger in size.
Unfortunately I don't yet have Google drive set up at the moment.


On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 22:07 -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> It looks like many of them are incomplete…. I’m running a wget on all
> the titles right now and many are coming up as 404.
> 
> > On May 3, 2020, at 4:56 PM, eminmn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey Man, thanks for the offer! (that's a pun).
> > Another member of tclug was kind enough to send me the Beginner's
> > Guide. The other one that would download only some kind of 13K
> > preamble was "Plant Anatomy," but that one is huge (about 150 MB
> > according to the first good Samaritan). If anyone has something
> > like Google Drive that they could upload it to, I would be grateful
> > for a shareable link. Otherwise, I could get along without it. I
> > did download one at a time about 50 others.
> > Now I would like to know why this glitch cropped up but I am not
> > likely to figure it out. I am only an occasional user of linux
> > (mint 19) and I know almost nothing about python.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ed
> > 
> > On 5/2/2020 18:58, r hayman wrote:
> > > My
> > > 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed.
> > > 2019 - 978-3-030-20290-3.epub' is 27.2 MB
> > > and my
> > > 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed.
> > > 2019 - 978-3-030-20290-3.pdf' is 30.5 MB.
> > > I'm not sure what happened to your download, but I'd be willing
> > > to share also if you can't resolve the issue.
> > > On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 23:17 -0500, eminmn wrote:
> > > > Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of
> > > > the most
> > > > interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming
> > > > (Hunt),
> > > > which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of
> > > > identical
> > > > size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs
> > > > it seems
> > > > to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433
> > > > pp. Even
> > > > plain text couldn't be compressed that much.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Ed
> > > > 
> > > > On 4/30/2020 17:03, r hayman wrote:
> > > > > Just passing this along to those that might be interested.
> > > > > Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19
> > > > > quarantine. No idea when this will end. The list of books can
> > > > > be found here 
> > > > > https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4
> > > > >  This GitHub repo has more info (links) and a python script
> > > > > to download all 409 books, or subsets of them. 
> > > > > https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books Plan on a 4+
> > > > > hour download window if you want copies of them all, there's
> > > > > about 14GB. I think the Springer site has throttled the
> > > > > download speed, I'm only getting ~2.4Mbps.
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