Download 'The Economist Audio Editions' For Free

the_economist.py

import hashlib
import urllib
import re
import os

issueid = 20151205 # Format: YYYYMMDD (only Saturdays)
downloadFolder = '/public/%d' % issueid
secret = hashlib.md5()
secret.update('23c341d479b2fd056c497c80f4223ca5%d' % issueid)

manifestURL = 'http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/digitaleditions/%s/Android/PHONE_MANIFEST_EU.gzz'
manifest = urllib.urlopen(manifestURL % issueid).read()

archives = re.findall('http:\/\/media.economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/digitaleditions\/\d{8}\/Audio\/(.*?).cdo', manifest)
os.system('mkdir %s' % downloadFolder)

for a in archives:
	aURL = 'http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/digitaleditions/%d/Audio/%s.cdo' % (issueid, a)
	path = '%s/%s.zip' % (downloadFolder, a)
	unzip = 'unzip -P %s %s -d %s && rm -rf %s' % (secret.hexdigest(), path, downloadFolder, path) # for UNIX & Linux

	urllib.urlretrieve(aURL, path)
	os.system(unzip)