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During the early stages of lockdown, Oxford provided all of their educational books for free online. As an IB student, I saw this and thought that the books could genuinly be useful to me. Unfortunately this offer was on for a limited time, meaning that I needed to find a method of downloading these books.

To install files:

git clone https://github.com/whoisoscar/calameo-downloader

To Install Required Modules:

pip install -r requirements.txt

cd calmeo-downloader
python3 main.py

Configurations are done within the main.py file. These configurations include:

• List of book links
• Option to only download PDF version

Given a list of calmeo.com books, the script will go through all the pages and dowload them. If only_pdf is set to false, the script will download both a SVG and PVG version.

This is done for personal preference as SVG's allow to search and copy text, but are more heavy-weight.

Onece all files are downloaded, the script combines all files into one PDF.

Setting only_pdf to true will take significantly less time as SVG's take a long time to download.

You can enter multiple urls within the list and the script will download all of them.

• Clean up code and remove abundant / repetetive code.