https://github.com/NoMod-Programming/PearsonEbookDownloader

Downloads E-Books "eText" from Pearson as a PDF file
https://github.com/NoMod-Programming/PearsonEbookDownloader

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Downloads E-Books "eText" from Pearson as a PDF file

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/NoMod-Programming/PearsonEbookDownloader
• Owner: NoMod-Programming
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2018-09-16T22:10:42.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-09-08T22:34:09.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T13:35:59.601Z (7 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 29.3 KB
• Stars: 113
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 34
• Open Issues: 20
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# This utility downloads an entire Pearson E-Book in a PDF format for a better viewing experience

The need for this utility came out of regularly wanting to read the E-Book for my Physics textbook

in places where I would have little to no internet, or where the internet would cut out randomly.

Not to mention that the E-Book sometimes doesn't even load, leading to an inability to even use the book in the first place!

# Using this utility

To use this utility, first log into the pearson website and access the E-Book. After about 10 seconds (or once the eText is loaded), copy the bookID parameter (anywhere from 5-6 digits long) and download it either using using the online downloader ("index.html" in this repository, and also available at https://NoMod-Programming.github.io/PearsonEbookDownloader/) or manually using python.

To use the python version, run this utility as follows:

	python3 downloader.py 

Where python3 points to the location of a python interpreter with the PyPDF2 module available (`pip install pypdf2`).

This will take a few minutes, downloading each individual page of the PDF (thanks, Pearson, for using *individual* pdf files for each page a thousand page book!) to a temporary directory, then merging them into a final PDF.

The output pdf will be saved into the current directory as `out.pdf`

Also... Please don't use this for piracy. I paid for my online textbook, as should you, but I paid for a working textbook, not something that takes a minute to load each page of. While I can't stop you, please only use this utility if you have paid for the textbook.

## Donation

One more thing: If you found this script helpful, please recommend it to others or [![Donate](https://img.shields.io/badge/Donate-PayPal-green.svg)](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=epedemont%40protonmail.ch&currency_code=USD&source=url). I'd really appreciate it.