take advantage of Springer free textbook due to COVID-19

Author: je-suis-tm

Springer.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# coding: utf-8
+
+# In[9]:
+
+
+import requests
+import os
+import pandas as pd
+import time
+os.chdir('d:/python')
+
+
+# In[4]:
+
+
+def scrape(url):
+    
+    session=requests.Session()
+
+    page=session.get(url,verify=False)
+
+    return page.content
+
+
+# In[5]:
+def main():
+    
+    #get textbook list
+    content=scrape('https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4')
+        
+    f=open('textbook.xlsx','wb')
+    f.write(content)
+    f.close
+        
+    df=pd.ExcelFile('textbook.xlsx').parse('eBook list')
+    
+    
+    #iterate through all books but it will take a long ass time
+    for i in range(len(df)):
+        
+        
+        name=df['Book Title'][i]
+        url=df['OpenURL'][i]
+        print(name)
+        
+        prefix='https://rd.springer.com/content/pdf/'
+        postfix=df['DOI URL'][i].split('http://doi.org/')[-1].replace('/','%2F')        
+        url=prefix+postfix+'.pdf'
+        
+        time.sleep(5)
+        content=scrape(url)
+        f=open(f'{name}.pdf','wb')
+        f.write(content)
+        f.close
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+
+
+