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August 4, 2015 18:37
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Small code snippet in Python 3 to download epub files
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##code to extract all the ebooks from http://inzania.com/temp/kindle/books/ and save it to a directory | |
try: | |
import urllib.request as urllib2 | |
except: | |
import urllib2 | |
import bs4 | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
destDir = 'E:\\Books\\New folder\\tmp\\' | |
LOG_LEVELS = { | |
"DEBUG" : 100, | |
"INFO" : 200, | |
"ERROR" : 300, | |
"NONE" : 400 | |
} | |
LOGLVL=LOG_LEVELS["DEBUG"] | |
def log_error(exception, string): | |
if(LOGLVL <= LOG_LEVELS["ERROR"]): | |
print("Exception encountered : " + str(type(exception))) | |
print("Exception : " + str(exception)) | |
print(string) | |
def log_info(string): | |
if(LOGLVL <= LOG_LEVELS["INFO"]): | |
print(string) | |
def log_debug(string): | |
if(LOGLVL <= LOG_LEVELS["DEBUG"]): | |
print(string) | |
requestString='http://inzania.com/temp/kindle/books/' | |
req = urllib2.Request(requestString, headers={"User-Agent" : "Magic Browser"}) | |
response = urllib2.urlopen(req) | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read()) | |
for a in soup.find_all('a'): | |
try: | |
url='http://inzania.com/temp/kindle/books/'+a.get('href') | |
filename=destDir+a.get_text().strip() | |
urllib2.urlretrieve(url, filename) | |
except Exception as e: | |
log_error(e, "Error with url:" + url) | |
response.close() |
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