Issuu : from reader Iframe to PDF

Objectif

Issuu platform share a lot of documents but some of them are not dowloadable. The problem for me is that I like to keep track of my readings and join notes with them. This package a only one usage : download some or all pages from the site and merge it into a nice pdf format.

Basic usage

1. Run : python3 ./main.py;
2. Input URL;
3. Input the page count you want ;

Features

• Loading pages as jpg file in ./tempfolder;
• Metada saved in json format in ./outfolder;
• URL parsed saved in txt format in ./out folder;
• Some logging for debugging ;
• Progress bar ;

Requirements

Python

This script requires Python 3 and BeautifulSoup. To install the required packages:

Conda users (For the exact configuration I uses)

conda env create -f ENV.yml
conda activate scrape_issuu

Pip users

pip3 install bs4

ImageMagick

This package also requires the convert command from ImageMagick

Known issues

• memory issues, go see this github thread;
• authorization issue, go see this askubuntu thread

Credits

This package is mainly a refactorings of https://github.com/dkl3/py-issuu-scrape . Thanks dude :).

dkl3 was inspired by the Ruby script from pietrop: https://github.com/pietrop/issuu.com-downloader as well as dkl3's original python script: https://github.com/dkl3/py-issuu-scrape