This vendor-agnostic script is used to download pdfs (and covers) from different services.
| service | pdf download | table of contents | pdf size | max logins | page labels | login expire | cover | rendered | refershes tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scuolabook | perfect | yes (very small) | excellent | very restrictive | yes | never | yes | no | no |
| MyLim | perfect | excellent | excellent | no | not yet/depends on vendor | ? | yes | no | no |
| Pearson+ / eText / Reader+ | perfect/yes | (depends on vendor)/excellent | big | no | yes/depends on vendor/no | ? | yes | sometimes | yes |
| bSmart / HoepliAcademy+ | yes | yes (very small) | very big (100+ mb) | no | yes | ? | yes | no | no |
| Mondadori HUB Scuola | yes | yes | very big (100+ mb) | no | yes (disable because glitches) | ? | yes | no | no |
| MEE2 / Blinklearning | yes | yes (very small) | good/excellent | no/1token4ever | no | never | yes | no | no |
| easyeschool | yes | yes (very small) | excellent | no/1token4ever | no | never | yes | no | no |
| Zanichelli Booktab | yes | yes | good/average | yes | yes | ? | yes | no | no |
| Zanichelli Kitaboo | yes | yes | average/big | yes | yes | ? | yes | yes | no |
| Oxford Learner’s Bookshelf | yes | yes (small) | very big | ? | not yet/no | ? | yes | no | no |
| Laterza diBooK | yes | yes/(depends on vendor) | excellent | ? | not yet/no | ? | yes | no | no |
| Raffaello Player | yes | yes (incomplete bc no samples :-( | very big | ? | yes | ? | yes | no | no |
| Cambridge GO | yes | yes | big | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Palumbo Editore - Saggi Digitali | yes | yes | average/big | no | no | no | yes | no | no |
| Cengage Read | yes | yes | enormous (500+ mb) | no | yes | ? | yes | yes | yes |
Apps that I am aware of but I can't work with beacuse I don't have books:
Appbook (might be a shitty html webview)- Digimparo (giuntitvp instance)
- Vitalsource (american platform, very good protection)
- digibook24 ("The platform was developed by bsmartlabs"?)
- Edisco Flowbook (more giuntitvp-like garbage?)
- Make a CLI interface with argparser
- Token versioning
- pdfgrabber versining
- Add anonymous user
Add ability to pass options to scripts- Add "perfect" token checks
- General code quality improvement (better management of exceptions)
- Make toc and labels generation raise non-critical warnings
- download the latest version of Python
- on windows, when installing though the set up wizard, make sure to select the checkbox to add python to
PATH - on linux and macos, use your package manager of choice (
brew install python3orapt install python3, etc...)
- on windows, when installing though the set up wizard, make sure to select the checkbox to add python to
- downlaod the pdfgrabber repo
- using git:
git clone https://github.com/FelixFrog/pdfgrabber.git - manually: download the zip (green button labeled "code") and extract it
- using git:
- open your local clone of pdfgrabber
- open the terminal in that directory and run:
pip install -r requirements.txt(takes care of installing every needed libraries)- run the script
python3 main.py(linux and macos)py main.py(windows)
- once inside the pdfgrabber CLI:
- press
r: register a new account - choose what to do (it's listed):
- to download a book: press
dand follow the instructions. - the output file will be
files/<service>/<id>.pdf
- to download a book: press
- press
Scuolabook has shutdown on 01/01/2024
Both RPLUS_PDF and RPLUS_EPUB books are stored in a password protected zip file. Python's ZipFile module doesn't do the decryption natively, so it might take a (very) long time for some big books in the "Extracting zip" phase. If you have found a decent workaround let me know.
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This script is provided "as is", without any type of warranty. I am not responsible of any harm or nuclear war that this may cause.