Bulk PDF downloader

* will with work for local and non-hosted PDF's *

a cli for downloading external pdf's (for lazy people like me)

Demo

Motivation

One day I was downloading what felt like millions of PDF packages of CS notes. A couple minutes in, I got really tired of right clicking Save Link As. So I decided to build this :)

Requirements

argparse
urllib
requests
wget
python >= 3.5

Install

$ git clone https://github.com/therealAJ/bulk-pdf
$ cd bulk-pdf
$ pip install -r reqs.txt

Usage

$ python pdf.py <URL-CONTAINING-DESIRED-PDFS> <dest/which/you/want/to/download/to> [OPTIONAL-BASE-URL-FOR-HOSTED-PDFS]

Downloads discovered PDFs to specified path.

For example:

$ python pdf.py https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~schmidtm/Courses/340-F16/ ~/Desktop/Lectures
# downloads all PDFs to your `~/Desktop/Lectures` folder

Notes

Webpages have different ways of hosting PDFs, some use an absolute url, like https://hosting-site.com/hello.pdf, others host locally and have href tags looking something like \courses\cs101\hello.pdf. The second case is the reason I added the ability to give the optional url for the parent hosting site.

You may run into a url that looks like https://site.com/lectures.html. More often than not, this is where you want to use the full url to parse the entire webpage and then use https://site.com as the optional parameter to do the wget requests with.

So, an example would look like:

$ python pdf.py https://site.com/lectures.html ~/Desktop/Test https://site.com

Hopefully I haven't confused you :) File an issue if you run into anything of interest. PRs welcome :)