Download All Hacker Monthly Issues

download_hacker_monthly.py

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from urllib2 import build_opener
from os import path

HMSUB_SESSION_COOKIE = 'XXX'

o = build_opener()
o.addheaders.append(
    ('Cookie', '_hmsub_session=%s' % HMSUB_SESSION_COOKIE),
)

base_url = 'https://subscriber.hackermonthly.com'
html = o.open('%s/profile/issues' % base_url).read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
for link in soup.findAll('a'):
    href = link.get('href')
    if href.startswith('/static'):
        with open(path.basename(href), 'w') as f:
            f.write(o.open('%s%s' % (base_url, href)).read())

I just signed up to Hacker Monthly and I was lazy to download everything manually. So here's a script that does it for me.