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Very true, I see >56,000 English-language books that seem to be available for free ( http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%22&showAll=false
by patrickyeon 11y ago
Very true, I see >56,000 English-language books that seem to be available for free ( http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%22&showAll=false&facet-language=%22En%22 http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2... ).
- tomtoise 11y agoIs there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agohttp://scrapy.org http://scrapy.org would almost certainly work.
- spooningtamarin 11y agoThey programatically disallow that if you try.
- iso8859-1 11y agoMaybe it would be possible to scrape the ISBN's and get them from Library Genesis?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoYou could have done that at any time in the past few years tho.
- jlarocco 11y agoWhy? I can understand downloading a few that look interesting, or asking for permission to mirror them, but blindly downloading all of them seems like hoarding.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoSeems like? No, it is hoarding. :)
- TeMPOraL 11y agoCall it "creating a local cache in case the service goes down" (and it most definitely will). "Hoarding" is the normal thing you do when dealing with digital stuff.
- jcpeterson 11y agoAnd...they are no longer available. Hope someone saved them.
- mlpinit 11y agohttps://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a#gistcomment-1658796 https://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a#gistc... There's a comment with a curl command for that on the repository.
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