Pull down a few public domain books

gutenberg.rb

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

(10000..10010).each do |i|
  path = i.to_s.chars.to_a[0...-1].inject(""){|memo, value|"#{memo}/#{value}"}
  path = "/dirs" + path + "/#{i}/#{i}.txt"
  puts "Get: http://www.gutenberg.org" + path
  Net::HTTP::Proxy("yourproxyserver", 8080).start("www.gutenberg.org", 80) do |http|
    http.request_get(path) do |response|
      File.open("#{i}.txt", 'w') do |file|
        response.read_body { |body_string| file.write body_string }
      end if response.is_a? Net::HTTPSuccess
    end
  end
end