springerQuarantineBooksR: download all Springer books made available during the COVID-19 quarantine
"With the Coronavirus outbreak having an unprecedented impact on education, Springer Nature is launching a global program to support learning and teaching at higher education institutions worldwide."
This package has the download_springer_book_files function which can be used to download all (or a subset) of these Springer book files freely available. The default parameters download the latest pdf versions of the English books and generate a repo with 7.27GB.
An excellent blog post with some nice usage examples can be found at https://www.statsandr.com/blog/a-package-to-download-free-springer-books-during-covid-19-quarantine/.
This is still a work in progress. Thus, any help and/or feedbacks are welcome!
Installation
Assuming you have devtools installed, you can install springerQuarantineBooksR with the following code (you might also try force = T argument inside install_github function):
devtools::install_github("renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR")
library(springerQuarantineBooksR)
Download all books in any repo of your choice
setwd('path_of_your_choice')
download_springer_book_files()
You'll get an output similar like this:
Repo Structure generated
It will be generated a repo named springer_quarantine_books with a specific structure:
Download only specific books
For example, if you'd like to download only books with "Data Science" on the title, you can run:
springer_table <- download_springer_table()
specific_titles_list <- springer_table %>%
filter(str_detect(book_title, 'Data Science')) %>%
pull(book_title)
download_springer_book_files(springer_books_titles = specific_titles_list)
Download .epub extension of the books:
If you'd like to download the books in the .epub extension (alternatevely, you can download both by setting filetype = 'both'), you can run:
setwd('path_of_your_choice_for_epub_books')
download_springer_book_files(filetype = 'epub')
Download books in German
If you'd like to download German books (more info in #16), you can run:
setwd('path_of_your_choice_for_german_books')
download_springer_book_files(lan = 'ger')
Acknowledgments
This project draw inspiration from the springer_free_books project available at https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books.
I also would like to thank @AntoineSoetewey for the constant help on feedbacks and spreading the package!
Thank you, Springer!