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alexgand / springer_free_books

Python script to download all Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine
GNU General Public License v3.0
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possible bug in macOS #64

Open macasal opened 4 years ago

macasal commented 4 years ago

Trying to download all the books. After having installed the requirements, the process completes (in only ~1 minute) but there is not any book in the respective folders. macOS limitation? Is the code only prepared for windows?

ulisesfronze commented 4 years ago

Hey, not the author, but you should provide some context like terminal log, python version, etc. Python is multiplatform, so no problem there. Also, what parameters did you try? Remember: enable the verbose mode with -v option.

arn4 commented 4 years ago

Don't know if is your problem, but on macOS I had to to this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44649449/brew-installation-of-python-3-6-1-ssl-certificate-verify-failed-certificate/44649450#44649450 in addition to the installation to make it work