This is a utility to regularly download today's issue of the NZZ newspaper in PDF format.
It uses Selenium to start a Chrome-Browser instance, navigates to https://https://epaper.nzz.ch/storefront/6 and then selects the PDF version to be downloaded (unless that issue is already present in the target folder).
Thus, running this daily will make sure that you have all issues of NZZ downloaded to your destination folder in PDF format for your reading pleasure.
Copyright © 2024-2025 by Michael Moser / [email protected]
The basic command-line is
java -jar <jar-file> -u <userId> -p <password> <further options here...>
See the downloadNZZ.cmd-file for an example how to run this via a Windows command-file.
(Note: you will have to enter your user-id and password into that file to get going...).
usage: Download_CT
-u,--username <arg> user-id for login to NZZ wensite [required]
-p,--password <arg> password for login to NZZ wensite [required]
-d,--download-folder <arg> download-folder [optional - default: %HOME%\downloads-folder will be used]
-t,--target-folder <arg> target-folder [optional - default: leave file in the download-folder (above)]
Just run the "typical" Maven install, i.e. mvn clean install to build the application. The generated run-able .jar can then be found in the project's target subdirectory as <application>-<version>.jar
A remark re. the build process:
For some reason the generation of an all-in-one .jar (i.e. a .jar-file that includes all application dependencies - which I generate to make it simpler to start and execute the jar instead of having to deal with dozens of additional .jars and their relative paths) first generates a tiny .jar which contains only the application's own class files. The presence of this .jar causes the generation of the all-in-one .jar later in the build to fail. So I added build steps to generate the second .jar under a different name, then to move the first .jar out of the way (by renaming it as <jar-name>.jar.original) and then renaming the all-in-one-jar as <application>-<version>.jar. If someone knows why the generation of that first .jar happens and has an idea or trick how to skip its generation in the first place, please let me know!