Add script to download a book from project gutenberg

bin/getbook

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Get books from  project gutenberg by passing the book id"""
+
+import os
+import sys
+import urllib2
+
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+
+_PAGE_URL = "http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/%d"
+_DL_LINK = "http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/%d/pg%d.mobi"
+
+class Book:
+    """Book gets the author and title by scraping the page"""
+
+    def __init__(self, book_id):
+        """Scraping the page author and title of the page"""
+        self._book = book_id
+        self._html = urllib2.urlopen(_PAGE_URL % self._book)
+        self._soup = BeautifulSoup(self._html)
+        self._title = self._soup.h1.contents[0]
+
+        by_parts = self._title.split(' by ')
+
+        self._author = ' by '.join(by_parts[-1:])
+        self._title = ' by '.join(by_parts[:-1])
+
+    def get_author(self):
+        """Return the author"""
+        return self._author
+
+    def get_title(self):
+        """Return the title"""
+        return self._title
+
+def get_book_ids():
+    """Get the arguments from the command line - ignore bad arguments"""
+    id_args = sys.argv[1:]
+    ids = []
+    for book_id in id_args:
+        try:
+            ids.append(int(book_id))
+        except ValueError:
+            print "ERROR: Could not add id '%s', must be id" % book_id
+    return ids
+
+def main():
+    """Run the script"""
+    ids = get_book_ids()
+    for bid in ids:
+        tmp_book = Book(bid)
+        if not os.path.exists(tmp_book.get_author()):
+            os.makedirs(tmp_book.get_author())
+
+        mobi_file = urllib2.urlopen(_DL_LINK % (bid, bid))
+        output = open('%s/%s.mobi' % \
+            (tmp_book.get_author(), tmp_book.get_title()), 'wb')
+        output.write(mobi_file.read())
+        output.close()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+
+