About The Project

There are many great books available on https://openlibrary.org/ and https://archive.org/, however, you can only borrow them for 1 hour to 14 days and you don’t have the option to download it as a PDF to read it offline or share it with your friends. I created this program to solve this problem and retrieve the original book in pdf format for FREE !

Of course, the download takes a few minutes depending on the number of pages and the quality of the images you have selected. You must also create an account on https://archive.org/ for the script to work.

Getting Started

To get started you need to have python3 installed. If it is not the case you can download it here : https://www.python.org/downloads/

Installation

Make sure you’ve already git installed. Then you can run the following commands to get the scripts on your computer:

$$
git clone https://github.com/MiniGlome/Archive.org-Downloader.git
cd Archive.org-Downloader
$$

The script requires the modules requests, tqdm and img2pdf, you can install them all at once with this command:

$$
pip install -r requirements.txt
$$

Usage

$$
usage: archive-org-downloader.py [-h] -e EMAIL -p PASSWORD [-u URL] [-d DIR] [-f FILE] [-r RESOLUTION] [-t THREADS] [-j]

optional arguments:
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-e EMAIL, –email EMAIL
Your archive.org email
-p PASSWORD, –password PASSWORD
Your archive.org password
-u URL, –url URL Link to the book (https://archive.org/details/XXXX). You can use this argument several times
to download multiple books
-d DIR, –dir DIR Output directory
-f FILE, –file FILE File where are stored the URLs of the books to download
-r RESOLUTION, –resolution RESOLUTION
Image resolution (10 to 0, 0 is the highest), [default 3]
-t THREADS, –threads THREADS
Maximum number of threads, [default 50]
-j, –jpg Output to individual JPG’s rather then a PDF
$$

The email and password fields are required, so to use this script you must have a registered account on archive.org. The -r argument specifies the resolution of the images (0 is the best quality). The PDF are downloaded in the current folder

Example

This command will download the 3 books as pdf in the best possible quality. To only downlaod the individual images you can use --jpg.

$$
python3 archive-org-downloader.py -e myemail@tempmail.com -p Passw0rd -r 0 -u https://archive.org/details/IntermediatePython -u https://archive.org/details/horrorgamispooky0000bidd_m7r1 -u https://archive.org/details/elblabladelosge00gaut
$$

If you want to download a lot of books in a raw you can paste the urls of the books in a .txt file (one per line) and use --file

$$
python3 archive-org-downloader.py
$$