Downloading purchases (pdf books) from humble bundle

humble.md

Super hacky, original method

Requires

• jq
• pandoc
• Browser with dev tools (much easier than navigating source)
• aria2c for batch downloading
• text editor with f&r

1. Go to purchase page.

2. Select html containing the download links (usually div .whitebox-redux).

3. Copy to new file (e.g. html/humble.html).

4. Repeat 1–3 for all pages, using the same file for step 3.

5. Convert html file to pandoc json.

   pandoc -r html -w json -o html/humble.json html/humble.html 
   

6. Filter json with jq (quicker than writing pandoc filter for this purpose).

   This is hacky but glorious.

   Either direct to file (with > or tee) or copy output from terminal.

   jq '..?|select(.t=="Link")?|..?|select(contains(".pdf"))?' html/humble.json
   

7. Strip the flanking quote marks.

8. Replace the html-encoded entities with their actual values.

   I’ve just used regex replace in vim,

   :%s/\v\&/\&/g
   

9. Run aria2 from directory where the files should end up.

   `aria2c -i file_with_list`