keepgrabbing.py

import subprocess, urllib, random
class NoBlocks(Exception): pass
def getblocks():
    r = urllib.urlopen("http://{?REDACTED?}/grab").read()
    if '<html' in r.lower(): raise NoBlocks
    return r.split()


import sys
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    prefix = ['--socks5', sys.argv[1]]
else:
    prefix = []#'-interface','eth0:1']
line = lambda x: ['curl'] + prefix + ['-H', "Cookie: TENACIOUS=" + str(random.random())[3:], '-o', 'pdfs/' + str(x) + '.pdf', "http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/" + str(x) + ".pdf?acceptTC=true"]


while 1:
    blocks = getblocks()
    for block in blocks:
        print block
        subprocess.Popen(line(block)).wait()