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The free book for the day from - wavic - Sep-02-2017
I am lazy man so it's too much for me to open a browser and check for the today free offer from packtpub.com
Here is a little script to tell me just thas. Eventually I could put some notification and asign a shortcut key combination to run it. I love Linux :)
from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning"
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get(url)
html = driver.page_source
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")
expire_time = soup.find('span', class_='packt-js-countdown').text.strip()
book_title = soup.find('h2').text.strip()
print('The free book for today from https://www.packtpub.com is')
print('"{}"'.format(book_title))
print('Expire in: {}'.format(expire_time))
RE: The free book for the day from - metulburr - Sep-02-2017
i didnt know about this website. Do they always give away free programming books. We could add this to our Yoriz free books thread or something.
EDIT:
oh nevermind. Its a 30 day trail to get it for free
RE: The free book for the day from - wavic - Sep-02-2017
We already have it as a topic here:
https://python-forum.io/Thread-book-Various-python-and-non-python-books-available-each-day-free-for-24hrs
Also, I have a registration there from a long time and can download every book they offer for free from the link in the script. I don't know what is that 30 days trail you are talking about
RE: The free book for the day from - snippsat - Sep-02-2017
Good work.
(Sep-02-2017, 12:37 PM)wavic Wrote: I love Linux :)It work on Windows to,if you wonder
The free books are free,no trial.
I do forget these offer all time,and will of course forget to run a script like this to.
It could be and idea to make it all automatic.
Then have to write login/password to site and then
click() Claim Your Free eBook .Then pass this code to job scheduling,my favorite in Python Job scheduling for humans.
Or use OS scheduling.
RE: The free book for the day from - wavic - Sep-02-2017
It'd be good but there is reCAPTCHA to identify that you are not a bot
RE: The free book for the day from - wavic - Sep-02-2017
As selenium is something I have never used before I found that there is no need of BeautifulSoup in this particular case.
from selenium import webdriver
url = "https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning"
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get(url)
book_title = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('h2').text
expire_time = driver.find_element_by_class_name('packt-js-countdown').text
print('The free book for today from https://www.packtpub.com is')
print('"{}"'.format(book_title))
print('Expire in: {}'.format(expire_time))
RE: The free book for the day from - metulburr - Sep-02-2017
shows how much i pay attention
You could run it auto on this server, then change the post content via mysql to update the OP of that thread to the current book that is for free. Not that that it is going to claim the book for anyone automatically.
RE: The free book for the day from - Larz60+ - Sep-02-2017
Don't forget O'Reilly's free book site: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/
RE: The free book for the day from - wavic - Sep-02-2017
(Sep-02-2017, 10:36 PM)metulburr Wrote: shows how much i pay attention
You could run it auto on this server, then change the post content via mysql to update the OP of that thread to the current book that is for free. Not that that it is going to claim the book for anyone automatically.
If I have time I will do it. Probably. Good idea
RE: The free book for the day from - metulburr - Sep-03-2017
Does it consistently change to a new book every 12 hours or something?