Note: If you want just one or two specific books, get the excel file here and manually download those. It took about 4 hours to complete the 409 english books (14 GB, both PDF and EPUB) on my machine.
By default the script stores the books in ./downloads subfolder (created if not exists) according to the subject ("English Package Name" column of the excel file).
Use the following command to download all PDF and EPUB books to the default download folder ./downloads
python3 main.pyTo download them to a subfolder of your choice, say books
python3 main.py -f ./booksYou can download to an absolute path, say C:/ebooks/springer/
python3 main.py -f C:/ebooks/springer/To download all PDF books only, run
python3 main.py --pdfor all EPUB books only,
python3 main.py --epubpython3 -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 main.pypython -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate.bat
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py
python -m virtualenv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate.bat
pip install -r requirements2x.txt
python main.py
- https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/freely-accessible-textbook-initiative-for-educators-and-students/17858180?utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=SpringerNature_&sf232256230=1
- https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru/17855960
- https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4
Thanks Springer!
Considering you cloned the repo in a folder, as:
cd \home\[user]\workspace`
git clone https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books.git
cd springer_free_books
mkdir downloadsYou can run the scripts like that:
docker build . -t springer-image
docker run --rm -v [local_download_folder]:/app/downloads springer-imageand the downloads will be at [local_download_folder]