pypackt 1.0.1

Description:

pypackt 1.0.1

WARNING: Due to introduction of reCAPTCHA at
https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning this project is no
longer supported.
pypackt is a command line tool to easily claim daily free ebooks
from
www.packtpub.com
into your packtpub account - my personal collection consists of over 350
books and still grows! :)

Table of Contents

Requirements
Installation
Usage
Contributing
Support
License
Troubleshooting
Acknowledgements



Requirements
pypackt works on Linux and Windows (tested on Linux Mint 18.1 and
Windows 7) and is both Python 2 and Python 3 compatible (tested on
python2.7 and python3.5+).

Dependencies:

Scrapy - to interact with packtpub.com (login and ebook claim)
requests - for URLs manipulation
python-crontab - to add job to user’s crontab




Installation
pypackt can be easily installed using pip:
pip install -U pypackt


Usage

Basic usage
To run pypackt simply type pypackt in your terminal:
~$ pypackt
If you are running pypackt for the very first time you will be asked to
provide your login details to www.packtpub.com:
~$ pypackt
Login data for packtpub.com is not set - please set it now:
Set Packtpub login details
Login: [email protected]
Password:
(**NOTE*: Your login details are used ONLY to login into
www.packtpub.com and are stored in user.ini file in package
installation directory)*
If you have a working Internet connection and provided correct login
details, after a moment you should see a title of the claimed ebook, for
example:
Learning Robotics Using Python


Available commands
To see list of available commands just type pypackt -h:
usage: pypackt [-h] [-c | -l | -ls | -cr | -s]

Tool to claim your daily free eBooks at www.packtpub.com with ease.

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c, --configure Configure login and password to www.packtpub.com.
-l, --last Show last claimed book.
-ls, --list List all books claimed with pypackt.
-cr, --cron Add job to user's crontab to claim free ebooks daily.
-s, --show Show login settings.



Contributing

Contributions are always welcome - just:
1. Fork the project.
2. Commit your changes on a feature branch.
3. Push them.
4. Submit a pull request.
5. Have your changes merged :)



Support

If you need assistance, want to report a bug or request a feature,
please raise an issue
here or contact me
directly at [email protected].
Please attach pypackt.log file located in package installation
directory if your request is bug related.



License
pypackt is released under the terms of the MIT License. Please refer to
the LICENSE.txt file for more details.


Troubleshooting
On Windows you can encounter some problems during the installation
process, which are - luckily - quite easy to solve:
Problem:
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 is required. Get it from http://aka.ms/vcpython27

Solution:
Open URL mentioned in the error message and install Microsoft Visual
C++ Compiler for Python 2.7.

Problem:
Unhandled error in Deferred:

Solution:
It’s a problem related to win32api. To solve it just install:

pip install -U pypiwin32
Problem:
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools":
http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools

Solution:
Again - follow URL from error message, download and install Microsoft
Visual C++ Build Tools.



Acknowledgements
Great thanks to Packtpub.com for sharing
free ebooks every day!