scrape_manuals.co

• Python web scraper for automobile workshop repair manuals from https://manuals.co
• Generates one pdf full_manual.pdf by converting individual html pages to pdf, cropping the manual page, and merging individual pdfs into one.

Steps:

0. Download code and create folders raw/ and crop/

1. Update config.py for your URL and min and max page

2. Run web scraping code. Update config.py if you can't get all the pages in one shot

   $ python scrape_to_pdf.py

3. Run crop_pdf.py to get pdfs with the correct dimensions. The individual cropped files are in directory crop/

   $ python crop_pdf.py

4. Run merge_pdf.py to combine individual pdfs into one output file: full_manual.pdf

   $ python merge_pdf.py

5. Check the contents of full_manual.pdf and if satisfied, manually delete individual pdf files in the temp folders raw/ and crop/

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Requires standard Python and a couple non-standard libraries: pdfkit and PyPDF2.

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No warranty. For personal and experimental use. Public domain license.