PacktPub Downloader

Script to download all your PacktPub books inspired by https://github.com/ozzieperez/packtpub-library-downloader

Since PacktPub restructured their website packtpub-library-downloader became obsolete because the downloader used webscraping. So I figured out that now PacktPub uses a REST API. Then I found which endpoint to use for downloading books and made a simple script. Feel free to fork and PR to improve. Packtpub's API isn't documented :'(

Usage:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py -e <email> -p <password> [-d <directory> -b <book file types> -s -v -q]

Example: Download books in PDF format

python main.py -e hello@world.com -p p@ssw0rd -d ~/Desktop/packt -b pdf,epub,mobi,code

Docker integration

You must put your data in the .env file.

mv data.env-sample data.env

and replace the sample data with your login credentials.

docker-compose up

After the execution, you can see the content in the book directory.

Commandline Options

• -e, --email = Your login email
• -p, --password = Your login password
• -d, --directory = Directory to download into. Default is "media/" in the current directory
• -b, --books = Assets to download. Options are: pdf,mobi,epub,code
• -s, --separate = Create a separate directory for each book
• -v, --verbose = Show more detailed information
• -q, --quiet = Don't show information or progress bars
• -a, --ask = interactive download: ask to save each file
• -l, --list = list all books in account and their product ids
• -u, --usecache = use cache to reduce api calls
• -i, --productids = comma separated product ids to download
• -u, --useragent = string for custom user agent

Book File Types

• pdf: PDF format
• mobi: MOBI format
• epub: EPUB format
• code: Accompanying source code, saved as a .zip file
• video: For videos, this will download all videos and source saved as a .zip file

Using the cache

The login token is always cached in a file called mediatokencache.id in the current working directory. If you get an error logging in, delete this file.

The -c argument activates the book list cache. It is stored in a file called packt_cache_file.json in the media output directory. To update the file list, just delete this file.

I'm working on Python 3.6.0