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O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks (oreilly.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the digital-documents dept.

An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: There's now a section on OReilly.com offering free ebooks about computer programming. There's four free Java ebooks and seven about Python, as well as an "Other" section which contains ebooks like C++ Today, Swift Pocket Reference, and Why Rust? But there's also some broader categories for Open Source and Software Architecture ebooks, as well as separate sections for their free ebooks about Data, Security, Web Development, and the Internet of Things.

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  1. URLs by Ann+Coulter · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just do these regex replacements on the URLs:
    curl 'http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/' | grep '\.csp' | sed 's/^.*href="//' | sed 's/free\/\(.*\).csp">/free\/\1.pdf/'

    http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program... http://www.oreilly.com/program...

    1. Re:URLs by NotInHere · · Score: 5, Informative

      Seems above command doesn't download all files. This one does:

      curl 'http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/' | grep '\.csp' | sed 's/^.*href="//' | sed 's/free\/\(.*\).csp.*">/free\/files\/\1.pdf/' | tr -d '\r' | xargs wget

      Usual disclaimers apply, ask your lawyer before doing this kind of stuff, etc etc.