Take 2: Download script for springerlink.com Ebooks (March 12, 2010)
NOTE: This script is apparently against the licensing contract between universities and Springer, see: http://www.bib.hm.edu/aktuelles/news/newsdetail_9984.de.html
NOTE 2: I do not maintain this script anymore. Please look for an alternative.
Seems like quite some people are interested in my bash script for downloading ebooks from http://springerlink.com.
That script has some quirks, the greatest of all that it was written in bash which makes it kind of hard to implement new features. And one which was requested was support for books which span multiple pages on SpringerLink.
So here I present springer_download.py
- a Python rewrite which should handle all the old links and some more. This is the very first program I’ve written in Python. And since it has to run on the Zedat servers it’s limited to Python 2.4.x without any fancy shmancy additions (a pity, since I’d love to use urlgrabber or pycurl).