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A package to download free Springer books during Covid-19 quarantine - Stats and R

This article presents a R package which allows to download free data science books in PDF that are made available by Springer during the COVID-19 quarantine

https://statsandr.com/blog/a-package-to-download-free-springer-books-during-covid-19-quarantine/

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Alex Lev on April 27, 2020 10:11:58:

Hi! Your code is full of bugs. Columns names are changed. Example: subject_classification instead of Subject Classification. Be careful while posting. Thanks for hint! Cheers!

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Alex Lev on April 27, 2020 10:11:58:

Hi! Your code is full of bugs. Columns names are changed. Example: subject_classification instead of Subject Classification. Be careful while posting. Thanks for hint! Cheers!

Comment written by Alex Lev on April 27, 2020 10:41:31:

springer_table <-   download_springer_table()       specific_titles_list <- springer_table %>% select('Book   Title', 'Subject Classification') %>%              filter(stringr::str_detect(             `Subject Classification`, #   look for a pattern in the subject_calssification column           'Statistics' # specify the   subject         )) %>%         pull(`Book Title`)          download_springer_book_files(springer_books_titles = specific_titles_list)

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Alex Lev on April 27, 2020 10:41:31:

springer_table <- download_springer_table()  specific_titles_list <- springer_table %>% select('Book Title', 'Subject Classification') %>%       filter(stringr::str_detect(        `Subject Classification`, # look for a pattern in the subject_calssification column      'Statistics' # specify the subject    )) %>%    pull(`Book Title`) download_springer_book_files(springer_books_titles = specific_titles_list)

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on April 27, 2020 12:09:16:

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your feedback. 

The author of the package edited it, and he changed the variable names. The code was correct at the time of writing the article though.

In any case, I contacted the author of the package and it is now back to the old variable names. So you should use book_title and subject_classification, exactly as in the article.

Let me know if you encounter any other issue.

Regards,
Antoine

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Alfonso Chang on April 30, 2020 06:38:04:

Thanks for this contribution Antoine S. 

Any advice if for any reason the download process was cut off and it canceled the transfer? If I run the code again, would the reload resume or start from scratch?

Best regards, 
Alfonso Chang

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Alfonso Chang on April 30, 2020 06:38:04:

Thanks for this contribution Antoine S. 

Any advice if for any reason the download process was cut off and it canceled the transfer? If I run the code again, would the reload resume or start from scratch?

Best regards, 
Alfonso Chang

Comment written by Alfonso Chang on April 30, 2020 07:12:13:

Would it be possible to download by folder? I think this method would be more accurate.  Thanks in advace. 
AC

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Alfonso Chang on April 30, 2020 07:12:13:

Would it be possible to download by folder? I think this method would be more accurate.  Thanks in advace. 
AC

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on April 30, 2020 08:47:16:

Dear Alfonso,

This may be due to internet connection problem. 

At the moment, if you run the code again it would restart from scratch. This pull request will try to fix this, but this has not yet been implemented.

I have just suggested downloading the books by folder to the author of the package. I'll let you know his reply.

Regards,
Antoine

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on April 30, 2020 08:47:16:

Dear Alfonso,

This may be due to internet connection problem. 

At the moment, if you run the code again it would restart from scratch. This pull request will try to fix this, but this has not yet been implemented.

I have just suggested downloading the books by folder to the author of the package. I'll let you know his reply.

Regards,
Antoine

Comment written by Alfonso Chang on April 30, 2020 15:25:39:

Thank you so much Sir. I'll appreciate it. 

BR,
AC

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by pocheche on April 30, 2020 16:37:33:

Tried to change settings for epub download but does not work, please ....

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Cimi on April 30, 2020 17:39:10:

Can you please help me I am stuck on the first step...  I dont know where to put the code

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by JC on April 30, 2020 18:06:03:

Hi! First of all, thanks for the post! 

I used this lines to download the ebooks:

setwd("path_of_your_choice") # where you want to save the books  download_springer_book_files() # download all of them at once

And at the end of the process, it appear on the console:
Warning messages:  1: In if (!dir.exists(current_folder)) { :  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used  2: In if (!dir.exists(current_folder)) { :  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used

What am I supposed to do?

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Cimi on April 30, 2020 17:39:10:

Can you please help me I am stuck on the first step...  I dont know where to put the code

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on April 30, 2020 18:09:27:

Dear Cimi,

Run the code in the R console or in a script. 

Perhaps this article will help you to get started with R: https://statsandr.com/blog/how-to-install-r-and-rstudio/ (see section "the main components of RStudio").

Hope this helps. 

Regards,
Antoine

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by JC on April 30, 2020 18:06:03:

Hi! First of all, thanks for the post! 

I used this lines to download the ebooks:

setwd("path_of_your_choice") # where you want to save the books  download_springer_book_files() # download all of them at once

And at the end of the process, it appear on the console:
Warning messages:  1: In if (!dir.exists(current_folder)) { :  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used  2: In if (!dir.exists(current_folder)) { :  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used

What am I supposed to do?

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on April 30, 2020 18:13:33:

Dear JC,

Did you change path_of_your_choice with the desired path (e.g., your desktop or a specific folder on your computer)? 

See the section "set working directory" of this article if you still struggle: https://statsandr.com/blog/how-to-import-an-excel-file-in-rstudio/

Regards,
Antoine

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on April 30, 2020 18:13:33:

Dear JC,

Did you change path_of_your_choice with the desired path (e.g., your desktop or a specific folder on your computer)? 

See the section "set working directory" of this article if you still struggle: https://statsandr.com/blog/how-to-import-an-excel-file-in-rstudio/

Regards,
Antoine

Comment written by JC on April 30, 2020 18:18:20:

Yes, yes. Sorry, I copy the line form the post and I forgot to put my path... Sorry for the mistake. I put a path to one folder of my desktop

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by JC on April 30, 2020 18:18:20:

Yes, yes. Sorry, I copy the line form the post and I forgot to put my path... Sorry for the mistake. I put a path to one folder of my desktop

Comment written by JC on April 30, 2020 18:46:22:

I mean that the Warning Messages appeared using my path. Sorry for the possible misunderstanding

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by JC on April 30, 2020 18:46:22:

I mean that the Warning Messages appeared using my path. Sorry for the possible misunderstanding

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on April 30, 2020 18:53:05:

Good that you clarified this. 

It's the first time I see your issue. Could you open an issue on the GitHub page of the package? The author will probably be able to help you! And don't hesitate to let us know if you managed to fix it.

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Jeri Kuusik on May 22, 2020 13:05:00:

Unfortunately, it does not help
Still all books are 14kb size
I am using R 3.6.1 on Linux (Centos 7)

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on May 22, 2020 16:53:41:

May I ask you to open an issue on GitHub so the author can have a deeper look into your issue?

Thanks in advance!

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on May 21, 2020 05:43:53:

Dear Anatoly,

The issue has been fixed through this pull request. You can download the books again.

Best,
Antoine

Comment written by Anatoly Likhatchev on May 23, 2020 14:38:48:

Antoine, I've updated the package via devtools::install_github("renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR#59", force = TRUE), but still having the 14K problem when downloading.

Regards,
Anatoly

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Anatoly Likhatchev on May 23, 2020 14:38:48:

Antoine, I've updated the package via devtools::install_github("renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR#59", force = TRUE), but still having the 14K problem when downloading.

Regards,
Anatoly

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on May 23, 2020 14:41:33:

May I ask you to open an issue on GitHub so the author can have a deeper look into your issue?

Thanks in advance!

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on May 23, 2020 14:41:33:

May I ask you to open an issue on GitHub so the author can have a deeper look into your issue?

Thanks in advance!

Comment written by Anatoly Likhatchev on May 23, 2020 18:54:59:

Done via renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR#61

Cheers

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on May 22, 2020 16:53:41:

May I ask you to open an issue on GitHub so the author can have a deeper look into your issue?

Thanks in advance!

Comment written by Jeri Kuusik on May 25, 2020 15:55:35:

Unfortunately, upgrading R to 4.0.0 did not helped. Still all books are 14kb

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Jeri Kuusik on May 25, 2020 15:55:35:

Unfortunately, upgrading R to 4.0.0 did not helped. Still all books are 14kb

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on May 25, 2020 16:04:44:

Dear Jeri,

As you can see in this issue, Springer tweaked the reCAPTCHA few days ago so at the moment it's not possible to use the package to download the books.

The author is trying to fix the issue, so the best thing you can do is to visit the repo from time to time to check whether it has been fixed. (If I don't forget, I'll also inform you here when it's fixed.)

Note that you can still download books one by one via this dynamic table or all of them here.

Sorry about that!

Best,
Antoine

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Anatoly Likhatchev on May 23, 2020 18:54:59:

Done via renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR#61

Cheers

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on May 27, 2020 11:08:33:

Dear Anatoly,

Not sure that the issue will be fixed unfortunately...

However, if you are still interested, you can download all books here, or one by one via this dynamic table.

Best,
Antoine

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Inseon Lee on May 29, 2020 04:40:56:

Thank you so much! It worked well after updating R to the newest version. Stay healthy!

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Inseon Lee on May 29, 2020 04:40:56:

Thank you so much! It worked well after updating R to the newest version. Stay healthy!

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on May 29, 2020 05:43:41:

Glad it worked for you Inseon!

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Ken Rosever on July 01, 2020 04:43:29:

Hi Antoine, do you happen to know how much storage the whole collection takes?

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Ken Rosever on July 01, 2020 04:43:29:

Hi Antoine, do you happen to know how much storage the whole collection takes?

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on July 01, 2020 05:45:45:

Dear Ken,

Almost 8GB.

Best,
Antoine

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Isaac Gordillo on August 06, 2020 04:33:05:

Hi Antoine,

the progrma it's not working for me, is the free book thing over? And if it is, do you happened to have the books? Because I didn't know about it on time.

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Isaac Gordillo on August 06, 2020 04:33:05:

Hi Antoine,

the progrma it's not working for me, is the free book thing over? And if it is, do you happened to have the books? Because I didn't know about it on time.

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on August 06, 2020 06:10:05:

Dear Isaac,

The promotion has ended so it is not possible to download the books through R. If you did not download the books in time, you can still have access to them here.

Regards,
Antoine

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Pinpacho handsome on October 29, 2020 17:56:22:

Hi

I couldn't download early.

Someone have all the books, it help me a lot of. The link above the picture doesn't work, there is another link?
Thanks

[AntoineSoetewey]

Comment written by Pinpacho handsome on October 29, 2020 17:56:22:

Hi

I couldn't download early.

Someone have all the books, it help me a lot of. The link above the picture doesn't work, there is another link?
Thanks

Comment written by Antoine Soetewey on October 29, 2020 19:03:23:

Dear Pinpacho,

Thanks for your message. Indeed the maintainer of the Google Drive link removed all books.

However, I found another link maintained by someone else and I updated the link at the top of the article. See here.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Antoine