Humble Book Bundles

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Can you make sure it also work with MS Edge?

Yep, the Chrome extension seems to work as-is under MS Edge.

[nana77]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

By the way, fanatical has similar bundles:
https://www.fanatical.com/bundle/books

Them all ended, despite still showing.

[rantanplan]

@andyh2000
Wow, that was quick! You didn't have to do that, I have Vivaldi a backup but thank you so much.

[maddz]

The Savage Swords and Mythic Tales by Ablaze bundle looks interesting; I'm particularly interested in The Kalevala given that's only available via Amazon... Unfortunately, it's top tier but that's only £9.00.

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/...e-comic-bundle

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

@andyh2000
Wow, that was quick! You didn't have to do that, I have Vivaldi a backup but thank you so much.

Love or hate generative AI, it's letting me do things in hours/days that would probably have taken weeks or months before.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by maddz

The Savage Swords and Mythic Tales by Ablaze bundle looks interesting; I'm particularly interested in The Kalevala given that's only available via Amazon... Unfortunately, it's top tier but that's only £9.00.

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/...e-comic-bundle

Well, I grabbed the bundle. It was a bit tedious downloading; the 20 GNs came as epub AND PDF. Still, I got the lot. FWIW, the download page is https://www.fanatical.com/en/product-library here when you are logged in. If you like, I can test any code for you.

[JSWolf]

If it works with Edge and I want to ever use it, I'll use it with Edge.

[andyh2000]

OK, just because it's you lot, I've purchased the 90p tier of the above comic bundle on Fanatical so I can try to recreate the Humble Bundle downloader. Unfortunately my order has been flagged for manual authorization (I guess because it's a new account) so I have to wait until I can try downloading anything. Watch this space.

[JSWolf]

After looking on Fanatical, I found nothing worth buying.

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

After looking on Fanatical, I found nothing worth buying.

That may be so, but some people obviously have.

So I've stayed up stupidly late and made a first version of a downloader for fanatical.com. It's a Chrome extension, and I won't be hurrying to make a Firefox version or try it out on MS Edge.

There is an important difference in how it works compared with the Humble Bundle downloader so be sure to read the included README file. In short, it clicks the buttons in the fanatical.com page rather than directly downloading the file URLs. So the page has to stay open for the duration of the downloads for it to click all the buttons.

Find it here: https://github.com/andrewmk/fanatical-downloader

[maddz]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

After looking on Fanatical, I found nothing worth buying.

I don't buy as much from them as I do from Humble Bundle, and the only title worth getting (IMO) in that bundle was the Kalevala graphic novel. Given it's £18.99 on Amazon only (no epub available) I thought £9 for an epub and a PDF was reasonable. I checked Ablaze and it seems digital versions of their titles are at VeVe, and I couldn't tell if they're downloadable or not.

I got the Lone Wolf & Cub bundle from them a while back, and added another book to the Humble Bundle Elfquest collection. I also got the Baen book collection, but in general they have little I want.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by andyh2000

That may be so, but some people obviously have.

So I've stayed up stupidly late and made a first version of a downloader for fanatical.com. It's a Chrome extension, and I won't be hurrying to make a Firefox version or try it out on MS Edge.

There is an important difference in how it works compared with the Humble Bundle downloader so be sure to read the included README file. In short, it clicks the buttons in the fanatical.com page rather than directly downloading the file URLs. So the page has to stay open for the duration of the downloads for it to click all the buttons.

Find it here: https://github.com/andrewmk/fanatical-downloader

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This is great! It works on both the order page and the product library page. Although the latter URL is paginated, it's still far better than manually clicking each link if you want to re-download everything.

And it keeps working when you switch to another tab.

Thanks for all your hard work Andrew.

[nana77]

Again, thanks so much everyone: idk why on Firefox I can't see the bundles on Fanatica, no matter the settings; using another browser it works.
@maddz: "The Savage Swords and Mythic Tales by Ablaze" seems really great; again, again, thanks!
@JSWolf: not sure if you watched the bundle's idems, there is even a graphic novel about Tolkien himself, other than the others amazing Howard's stories.
@andyh2000: anew thanks, at the moment I'll try to manually get lost onto the humble-cli aur package's dependencies, without the pacman's helpers or "go" installations which I know even lesser than the former. But nice to know, and I'll try those addons (ps: are them mean to work only while using Windows?).
@ownedbycats: I was so rich before you started the thread .

The Fanatical's downloads ain't that bad, imho, as it allows to resume the failed downloads easily; while looking around, do you might know if there are already Calible plugins that can apply these downlads?
Like "humblebundle-calibre-plugin", or "hb_organiser" (https://github.com/WhaleJ84/hb_organiser)?
Pps: I guess these questions I better I post on other forum sections, btw. Point is that it doesn't seem to have much comments or explanations on github page.

[nana77]

Originally Posted by nana77

Again, thanks so much everyone: idk why on Firefox I can't see the bundles on Fanatica, no matter the settings; using another browser it works.
@maddz: "The Savage Swords and Mythic Tales by Ablaze" seems really great; again, again, thanks!
@JSWolf: not sure if you watched the bundle's idems, there is even a graphic novel about Tolkien himself, other than the others amazing Howard's stories.
@andyh2000: anew thanks, at the moment I'll try to manually get lost onto the humble-cli aur package's dependencies, without the pacman's helpers or "go" installations which I know even lesser than the former. But nice to know, and I'll try those addons (ps: are them mean to work only while using Windows?).
@ownedbycats: I was so rich before you started the thread .

The Fanatical's downloads ain't that bad, imho, as it allows to resume the failed downloads easily; while looking around, do you might know if there are already Calible plugins that can apply these downlads?
Like "humblebundle-calibre-plugin", or "hb_organiser" (https://github.com/WhaleJ84/hb_organiser)?
Pps: I guess these questions I better I post on other forum sections, btw. Point is that it doesn't seem to have much comments or explanations on github page.

The Lone Wolf and the Cub too isn't unworthily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_and_Cub
**now just time to read.
Pardon, again mistyped edit and quote.

[andyh2000]

The extensions I've produced have only been tested on Windows but they are pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript so I don't see why they wouldn't work in Chrome/Chromium under Linux. I only ever use the CLI under Linux so I have no interest in trying them there.