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\| "rogdown" - read-only Google Drive PDF downloader
*What is this?* This is a simple script that allows you to download read-only
Google Drive PDF files to your local machine.
*How does it work?* The script uses Python 3 and Selenium to download the PDF
file. Read-only PDF documents are fetched as images in the browser, and the
script will try to redraw the image to a canvas element and save it as a JPEG
image. The images are then combined into a PDF file.
*What if the file is private or requires authentication?* By default, the
script will run the Chrome webdriver using the
`--user-data-dir=rogdown-chrome-profile` option. If you want to log in to your
Google account, just run Chrome manually using the
`--user-data-dir=rogdown-chrome-profile` option and log in to your account. The
script will then use the existing session to download the file. Simply, just
hack your way through the authentication process.
*How do I use it?* The script requires a few Python dependencies like selenium
and pillow. You can install it by running the `pip install .` command.
*Tested on:*
1. Debian 12
2. Python 3.11.7
3. Output of `uv tree`
.-------------------------------------------.
| rogdown v0.1.0 '
| ├── pillow v11.0.0 '
| └── selenium v4.26.1 '
| ├── certifi v2024.8.30 '
| ├── trio v0.27.0 '
| │ ├── attrs v24.2.0 '
| │ ├── idna v3.10 '
| │ ├── outcome v1.3.0.post0 '
| │ │ └── attrs v24.2.0 '
| │ ├── sniffio v1.3.1 '
| │ └── sortedcontainers v2.4.0 '
| ├── trio-websocket v0.11.1 '
| │ ├── trio v0.27.0 (*) '
| │ └── wsproto v1.2.0 '
| │ └── h11 v0.14.0 '
| ├── typing-extensions v4.12.2 '
| ├── urllib3[socks] v2.2.3 '
| │ └── pysocks v1.7.1 (extra: socks) '
| └── websocket-client v1.8.0 '
`-------------------------------------------'
4. Date/time: 2024-11-06
Potential future improvements:
1. Better experience and error handling
2. More stable way to interact with Google Drive's potentially changing "DOM
interface"
*Disclaimer:* This script is only a mere proof of concept and should not be
used for any malicious purposes. The author is not responsible for any misuse
of this script.