dnyaneshwar1991/learncpp-download

An advanced web scraper tool that seamlessly fetches and combines over 200 online tutorials into a convenient offline PDF format.

LearnCPP Downloader

An advanced web scraper tool that seamlessly fetches and combines over 200 online tutorials into a convenient offline PDF format.

Support ❤️

Please support here: https://www.learncpp.com/about/

Usage

Windows

This is not supported on Windows (yet). Till then, please stick with WSL2 or use the docker installation method.

Linux or macOS

Install this package using your package manager: wkhtmltopdf.

Requires Python 3.10. Create a virtual environment before running the pip command.

git clone https://github.com/amalrajan/learncpp-download.git
cd learncpp-download
pip install -r requirements.txt

Now cd into the cloned repository and run the script.

cd source
python main.py

The PDF files will get downloaded into a newly created "downloads" folder, right under "source" directory.

Docker

docker pull amalrajan/learncpp-download:latest
docker run --rm --name=learncpp-download --mount type=bind,destination=/app/downloads,source=<host-downloads-path> --shm-size=1.14gb amalrajan/learncpp-download

Replace <host-downloads-path> with a local path on your system where you'd want the files to get downloaded.

Parallel processing

Thanks to https://github.com/ray-project/ray, the processing time is now reduced to ~5 seconds from the previous 300 seconds, on a decent system. Watch out, this uses a lot more CPU and memory.

Facing trouble?

Feel free to open a new issue here: https://github.com/amalrajan/learncpp-download/issues. Please attach the console logs along.

License

The MIT License