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April 27, 2020 10:25
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Script to download all Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
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library(tidyverse) | |
library(httr) | |
library(fs) | |
library(here) | |
titles_url <- "https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4" | |
dl_folder <- "downloads" | |
# Save Excel table to tmp folder | |
GET(titles_url, write_disk(tmp_table <- tempfile(fileext = ".xlsx"))) | |
titles <- readxl::read_xlsx(tmp_table) %>% | |
janitor::clean_names() | |
titles <- titles %>% | |
mutate( | |
book_url = map_chr(open_url, ~ GET(.)$url), | |
pdf_url = book_url %>% | |
str_replace_all(c("/book/" = "/content/pdf/", "%2F" = "/")) %>% | |
str_c(".pdf") | |
) %>% | |
separate(author, | |
into = c("author1", "author2", "author3"), sep = ", ", | |
extra = "drop", fill = "right" | |
) %>% | |
mutate( | |
author1 = map_chr(str_split(author1, " "), tail, 1), | |
author2 = map_chr(str_split(author2, " "), tail, 1), | |
author3 = map_chr(str_split(author3, " "), tail, 1), | |
file_name = case_when( | |
# One author: | |
is.na(author2) ~ str_c(author1, copyright_year, book_title, sep = "_"), | |
# More than two authors: | |
!is.na(author3) ~ str_c(author1, "et_al", copyright_year, book_title, sep = "_"), | |
# Two authors: | |
TRUE ~ str_c(author1, author2, copyright_year, book_title, sep = "_") | |
) %>% | |
str_replace_all(c(":" = ".", "/" = "_")) %>% | |
str_c(".pdf") | |
) | |
titles %>% | |
distinct(english_package_name) %>% | |
map(~ dir_create(here(dl_folder, .))) | |
titles %$% | |
map(pdf_url, ~ GET(., write_disk(here( | |
dl_folder, | |
english_package_name[pdf_url == .], | |
file_name[pdf_url == .] | |
)))) |
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