Manning Publications Ebooks Downloader

If you are like me and you have bought a lot of (50+) IT ebooks from Manning Publications, you might be looking for a tool that can programatically download them in a nice, organized way. You came to the right place!

Screenshot of the owned products dashboard:

Requirements

# Install Python packages inside virtual environment:
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Tested on:

uname -a
# Linux lmaly.remote.csb 4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 15 11:24:21 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

python --version
# Python 3.6.8

Usage

• Run the help to see the usage:

./manning.py -h
# Usage: `manning.py -u <email> -p <password>`

• Execute the process by providing the username/e-mail and the password. Top level folder with the current date will be created and all of your books will be stored underneath it:

./manning.py -u [email protected] -p secretpassword
# Created folder Manning_2020-09-13
# Created folder Manning_2020-09-13/AWS_Security
# Created folder Manning_2020-09-13/Transfer_Learning_for_Natural_Language_Processing
# Created folder Manning_2020-09-13/Rust_in_Action
# Created folder Manning_2020-09-13/Math_and_Architectures_of_Deep_Learning
# Created folder Manning_2020-09-13/Learn_Kubernetes_in_a_Month_of_Lunches
# ...

Result

• As you can see in the example below, there is one *.zip per folder:

tree Manning_2020-09-13
# Manning_2020-09-13
# ├── AWS_Security
# │   └── AWS_Security.zip
# ├── Azure_Storage,_Streaming,_and_Batch_Analytics
# │   └── Azure_Storage,_Streaming,_and_Batch_Analytics.zip
# ├── Beyond_Spreadsheets_with_R
# │   └── Beyond_Spreadsheets_with_R.zip
# ├── Elastic_Leadership
# │   └── Elastic_Leadership.zip
# ├── Event_Streams_in_Action
# │   └── Event_Streams_in_Action.zip
# ├── Five_Lines_of_Code
# │   └── Five_Lines_of_Code.zip
# ...

• Each *.zip file contains PDF, EPUB, MOBI:

zipinfo Manning_2020-09-13/AWS_Security/AWS_Security.zip
# Archive:  AWS_Security.zip
# Zip file size: 14443760 bytes, number of entries: 3
# -rw----     2.0 fat  8008077 bl defN 20-Sep-13 06:36 AWS_Security_v3_MEAP.pdf
# -rw----     2.0 fat  4457182 bl defN 20-Sep-13 06:36 AWS_Security_v3_MEAP.epub
# -rw----     2.0 fat  3016348 bl defN 20-Sep-13 06:36 AWS_Security_v3_MEAP.mobi
#  files, 15481607 bytes uncompressed, 14443314 bytes compressed:  6.7%

• To unzip all of the files (and remove the original *.zip):

find Manning_2020-09-13/ -name '*.zip' -execdir unzip -o {} \; -delete

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Contributors

Lucian Maly <[email protected]>

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Last Update: Tue Sep 15 12:30:33 UTC 2020