If you want books, but don’t want to pay for them, there is a better way than walking into your local book store and pocketing them. Try grabbing them online, from Google!Everyone must be aware of the by now.
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Jul 02, 2014 Google Book Downloader. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Download any book from books.google.com THIS IS A STATIC MIRROR OF USERSCRIPTS.ORG - LOGINS DO NOT WORK WARNING: SOME SCRIPTS MAY BE DANGEROUS! Request removal.
If you’re not, it’s basically a way for Google to ensure all of the world’s book content is accessible and searchable. Through the Book Project, Google works with libraries to scan and archive their older and out of print materials. Up until recently, viewers of books in the Google Library Project web space were limited to viewing books within the browser. Not any more. Is a utility that rips books from Google and saves them as PDFs so you can view them with any device or desktop that can view this file format. Using Microsoft’s.NET framework, the Google Book Downloader application allows users to enter a book’s ISBN number or Google link to pull up the desired book and begin a download, fishing off with exporting the file to a PDF.Posted in, Tagged, Post navigation. This is really bad news.
I already have my bash script that only uses wget for downloading Google books.With this program being released to everybody, Google will certainly change the way how Books are retrieved and maybe start using obscure third party plugins. Which will make harder (if not impossible) to continue downloading them.For those willing to write their own robot, look at python and urlgrabber/urllib/htmlparser/twisted. Python makes it easy, IMHO.@anonI bet.@LukeSTIP: Viewable pages are randomized for each visitor. @JamesNot just the author of the post. The app developer should be ashamed of himself and most probably will receive a direct takedown notice from Google. He is using the trademarked word Google directly in his program plus the obvious purpose and objective (which violates de Google’s ToS) of the program.Even worse is Codeplex actually being hosting the program. For those who don’t know CodePlex is sponsored by Microsoft.Does anybody know Codeplex reviews new project submissions or does it just accept all crap people throw into them?
@darksim905I personally find it very useful, specially for previewing University course related books. Books are also indexed by content which means you really find relevant text by content and not only by title and abstract which used to happen on traditional libraries. But I guess you don’t read much do you?
(game reviews or walkthroughs doesn’t count)IMHO Google books works very well as it is. It is very lightweight and doesn’t require third party plugins (like most of Google services).“So this guy wrote a program to automate a process. If they change their method, the guy will just update the program or find someone else who knows how to do it.”If they start using some proprietary browser plugin to obfuscate the code then, TBH, I don’t really believe a guy who writes code in.NET has the skills and ability to interpret the plugin’s code.– And that is why I’m pissed off! I don’t want more fscking plugins! Haters – pls stop drinking your hatorade.
Someone showed up who is nicer than you. Live with it.When I wrote a greasemonkey script that allowed people to download “this american life” instead of streaming it, I got just this kind of response. “They’ll change everything and now my script won’t work!”Of course, it just helped them open up. Now you can subscribe to a podcast of “this american life” episodes. Stuff like this just makes it easier for executives to justify opening up the data.Be kind. Useless hack.The books this bot app fully pulls out are already available in full view mode (PDF or even, for many of them, EPUB). To download them outside the US, just use a proxy.If you want the links to the images of limited preview books use the Google Books Downloader JS script (with Greasemonkey) and batch download them from within the browser.
Or write your own Perl (or Python or whatever) script to automate the process the way you want (my choice).This chip app will only get your IP banned.
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