springerQuarantineBooksR: download all Springer books made available during the COVID-19 quarantine

"With the Coronavirus outbreak having an unprecedented impact on education, Springer Nature is launching a global program to support learning and teaching at higher education institutions worldwide."

Source: https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/freely-accessible-textbook-initiative-for-educators-and-students/17858180?utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=SpringerNature_&sf232256230=1

This package has the download_springer_book_files function which can be used to download all (or a subset) of these Springer book files freely available. Currently, it fetches only the pdf versions of the books and generates a repo with 7.27GB, if all books are downloaded.

This is still a work in progress. Thus, any help and/or feedbacks are welcome!

Installation

Assuming you have devtools installed, you can install springerQuarantineBooksR with the following code (you might also try force = T argument inside install_github function):

devtools::install_github("renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR")
library(springerQuarantineBooksR)

Download all books in any repo of your choice:

setwd('path_of_your_choice')
download_springer_book_files()

You'll get an output similar like this:

Repo Structure generated

It will be generated a repo named springer_quarantine_books with a specific structure:

Download only specific books:

For example, if you'd like to download only books with "Data Science" on the title, you can run:

springer_table <- download_springer_table()

specific_titles_list <- springer_table %>% 
  filter(str_detect(book_title, 'Data Science')) %>% 
  pull(book_title)

download_springer_book_files(springer_books_titles = specific_titles_list)

Acknowledgments

This project draw inspiration from the springer_free_books project available at https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books.

Thank you, Springer!