Fetch all books from Wolne Lektury

gistfile1.py

import simplejson, requests, urllib, re
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

from slughifi import slughifi
### http://trac.django-fr.org/browser/site/trunk/project/links/slughifi.py?rev=47
### with django's slugify hardcoded inside from:
### http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577257/

for z in simplejson.loads(requests.get("http://wolnelektury.pl/api/books/").content.decode('utf8')):
    p = simplejson.loads(requests.get(z['href']).content)
    if p['parent'] is None:
        authorList = z['author'].split(' ')
        authLen = len(authorList)
        if authLen > 1:
            lName = authorList[-1]
            fNames = ' '.join(authorList[:-1])
            author = "%s, %s" % (lName, fNames)
        else:
            author = z['author']
        slug = slughifi(author+' - '+p['title'])
        print "Fetching %s by %s (%s) to %s.mobi" % (p['title'], author, p['mobi'], slug)
        urllib.urlretrieve(p['mobi'], slug + '.mobi')