📚 Archive.org Book Downloader

Download borrow-only books off archive.org.

Setup

1. Install Python 3+ from here (make sure you click add python to PATH)
2. Install Google Chrome from here
3. Download BookDownloader.py and requirements.txt from the repo above
4. Download the chrome webdriver here for the version of chrome you have installed on your device
5. Install the required modules by running install_modules.cmd from the above repo above or directly from the command line with pip install -r requirements.txt

Book Downloading

There are two main ways to use this script:

• Automatic mode (useful batch jobs):
  • BookDownloader.py <ID> <username> <password> <output dir>
    <ID> - The id of the book your are downloading (usually https://archive.org/details/<ID>)
    <username> - Archive username
    <password> - Archive password
    <output dir> - Output directory to create the output dir in (leave blank to set the current dir as output)
• Manual mode (for quick downloads)
  • To run in manual mode, run the script without any arguments. It will ask for the id , username, password and output directory.

TODO for future releases

• Binary release
• Headless mode (coming in R2)
• Webdriver selection (chrome/firefox)
• Lists/batch support
• GUI?

Known bugs

• Script may crash as it tries to return a book after downloading

Under MIT license