This file used to download file from http://www.par-anoia.net/assessment/books/coding/Python/ Created by Narate Ketram 23/5/2013

python-book-download.py

# This file used to download file from http://www.par-anoia.net/assessment/books/coding/Python/
# Created by Narate Ketram
# 23/5/2013

import urllib
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

url = "http://www.par-anoia.net/assessment/books/coding/Python/"
file_names = []

# create a subclass and override the handler methods
class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
      if tag.lower() == "a":
    		attrs = dict(attrs)
    		file_names.append(urllib.unquote(attrs.get('href',"")))

def downloadFile():
	c = 0
	for name in file_names:
		c += 1
		print "Download... #",c, "of",len(file_names)
		print "from",url + name
		f = open(name,'wb')
		u = urllib.urlopen(url+name)
		f.write(u.read())
		f.close()
		print "Saved to",name,"\n"

print "Getting url data..."
html_string = urllib.urlopen(url)
parser = MyHTMLParser()
parser.feed(html_string.read())

file_names.pop(0) # Parent Directory
file_names.pop(0) # Reference cards

downloadFile()
print "Done...\n"