Script to claim free book from Packpub

claim_free_title.md

USAGE

• download ZIP
• install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
• edit claim_free_title.py - Add authentication info

PACKPUB_USER = "[email protected]"
PACKPUB_PASS = "Y0urP4ssH3r3"

• run the script python claim_free_title.py
• edit cron crontab -e and add something like this:

0 0 * * * python ~/claim_free_title.py

claim_free_title.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import requests
import re

PACKPUB_USER = "[email protected]"
PACKPUB_PASS = "Y0urP4ssH3r3"

s = requests.session()
home = s.get("https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning", headers={'user-agent': 'cfreebook/0.0.1'})

regxp = re.search("/freelearning-claim/\d*/\d*", home.text)
claim_link = regxp.group(0)

regxp = re.search("form_build_id.\s*id=.([^\"]+)\"", home.text)
form_build_id = regxp.group(1)

auth = s.post("https://www.packtpub.com/register", {
    "email":PACKPUB_USER,
    "password":PACKPUB_PASS,
    "op": "Login",
    "form_build_id": form_build_id,
    "form_id": "packt_user_login_form"
}, headers={'user-agent': 'cfreebook/0.0.1'})

if auth.url == "https://www.packtpub.com/account":
    claim_book = s.get("https://www.packtpub.com" + claim_link,
        headers={'user-agent': 'cfreebook/0.0.1'})
    if claim_book.url == "https://www.packtpub.com/account/my-ebooks":
        print("Book has been added to your list. You current have:")
        regexp = re.compile('<div class="title">\s*([^<]*)\s*<\/div>')
        for title in regexp.finditer(claim_book.text):
            print("- " + title.group(1))
        exit(0)

else:
    print("Authentication failed.")
    exit(1)

print("Something went wrong. Sorry, low budget for full error handling. Check"
      "your internet, DNS, user and password. If none of that keep checking"
      "other stuff.")
exit(1)

requirements.txt

requests==2.11.1