Edubase Downloader

Backup/Download your (bought!) Edubase books to PDFs, because nobody likes proprietary ebook readers.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/rtfmkiesel/edubase-downloader
# a venv is recommended
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

usage: edubasedl.py [OPTIONS]

Required:
-u, --username           Username (Email) of Edubase account

Options:
-p, --password           Password (can be left empty, script will ask)
-c, --chrome-path        Path to the chrome/chromium binary
-a, --all                Will download all found books
-s, --show               Show the action/open browser in front
-h, --help               Prints this text
-d, --disable-css-patch  Disable print.css modification to prevent shifted backgrounds

OCR

The PDFs that this code produces are just images and thus not searchable. There are many OCR solutions, but for me, github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF worked perfectly fine.

Legal

This code does not "crack" any copy protection. It simply makes automated screenshots of every single site of a bought document/book. Since Edubase cannot guarantee the existence/support for their reader app if they go out of business, this repo was created to save, backup and preserve bought Edubase documents as the widely adapted and well documented PDF format.