Usage

pdfs2book can be useful when you want to download all pdfs of a webpage and merge all of them. for example, using the following command to download the CS251 course slides as a book:

python3 pdf.py -w https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ayg/CS251/slides -o ./CS251

Tip

using -p/-s to specify prefix/suffix of the pdf files you want.

Flags

usage: pdf [-h] [-w WEBSITE_URL] [-o OUTPUT] [-p PREFIX] [-s SUFFIX]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -w WEBSITE_URL, --website_url WEBSITE_URL
                        a website that contains multiple links to pdf files
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        directory to save the downloaded pdf files
  -p PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
                        specify pdf filename prefix
  -s SUFFIX, --suffix SUFFIX
                        specify pdf filename suffix

Requirements

• argparse
• urllib
• requests
• wget
• PyPDF2
• python >= 3.5