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Downloads MSFTFreeEbooks as per Eric Ligman's blog
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# Downloads MSFTFreeEbooks as per Eric Ligman's blog | |
# https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2016/07/10/how-to-download-all-of-the-free-ebooks-and-resources-in-my-free-ebooks-giveaway/ | |
# You'll probably want to do a pip install requests first before you can run the script | |
import os | |
import sys | |
import urllib | |
import requests | |
def unshorten_url2(url): | |
r = requests.head(url, allow_redirects=True) | |
return r.url | |
def download(url): | |
full_url = unshorten_url2(url) | |
print 'Getting %s' % full_url | |
webfile = urllib.urlopen(full_url) | |
localfile = open(full_url.split('/')[-1],'w') | |
localfile.write(webfile.read()) | |
webfile.close() | |
localfile.close() | |
def main_loop(file_to_read): | |
with open(file_to_read) as f: | |
next(f) # skip first line | |
for line in f: | |
download(line) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
if len(sys.argv) == 2: | |
try: | |
main_loop(sys.argv[1]) | |
except IOError: | |
print 'Filename not found' | |
else: | |
print 'Usage: %s [path_to_file]' % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) |
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