Tag: research tools

So, some of you may have heard about the free e-books frenzy at Springer (unfortunately, not working any more ). I jumped on the train of people trying to find the goodies on the website and ended up developing some tools to help me with that. Even after the freebies ended I kept on improving this tool because it is useful also in my day-to-day job of searching for bibliography and storing those PDF’s. So this script can basically navigate through a search result (passed to the script as a link to the search result) and download all books available (even if it consist of many pages results). This is also useful for downloading all books from a series (for example, springer series in statistics). In the future I intend to update the script including download of chapters of books and research articles. This script is specially useful if your university have access to Springer Books. (full code in https://gist.github.com/zehsilva/d890837cdfd4a20ee8a5#file-download-books-from-rss-springer-py) Continue reading “Script for searching and web crawling Springer Books” →