Script to Download Fonts in Bulk From dafont.com
Being into design related stuff since joining college, I’ve found it a necessity to maintain a decent font collection. In this post, I will share and explain the script which helped me to create my collection.
What my script does is download fonts directly off a top 20 list of fonts from dafont.com, for each sub-category available there.
The website has a very organized way to let users download fonts. First, there are categories like Fancy, Foreign Look, Techno, Gothic etc. Under each of these categories, there are sub-categories. Each subcategory has an ID which will help our purpose.
You can just change the ID range in the script to download fonts of different category.
The Script
#! /usr/bin/python # Name: dafont.com Bulk Download Tool # Version: 0.3 # Summary: A tool for downloading top 20 fonts of each sub-category of dafont.com # License: BSD # Author: Pranav Ashok # Author-email: iam@pranavashok.com # Author-homepage: http://pranavashok.com/blog # Support: http://pranavashok.com/blog/2010/05/script-to-download-fonts-in-bulk-from-dafont-com # Support: Twitter (@pranavashok) from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import re import os import commands import string for cat in range(101, 119): #ID Range 101-119 url = 'http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=%d&nb_ppp=20' % cat contents = commands.getoutput("curl -s '"+url+"'") w = open('downloader.sh', 'a') soup = BeautifulSoup(contents) directory = soup.find('title').contents wholeTag = soup.findAll('a', {"class" : "dl"}) directory[0] = string.rstrip(directory[0], " | dafont.com</title>") fontCat, useless, subCat = directory[0].partition(" > ") w.write('mkdir \"%s\"\n' % fontCat) w.write('cd \"%s\"\n' % fontCat) w.write('mkdir \"%s\"\n' % subCat) w.write('cd \"%s\"\n' % subCat) for link in wholeTag: name = os.path.basename(link['href']) fileName, fileExt = os.path.splitext(name) fileName = string.lstrip(fileName, "?f=") w.write('wget -c -O \"%s.zip\" \"%s\" \n' % (fileName, link['href'])) w.write('cd ..\n') w.write('cd ..\n') w.close()
Dependencies
This script has used python library called BeautifulSoup for parsing HTML. If you are a developer, I’d recommend you to try BeautifulSoup. It’s got a nice documentation and it’s easy to use.
Usage
1. Download dafont.com Bulk Downloader Tool
2. Extract the files
3. Open terminal and navigate to the folder where final.py is located.
4. Execute the command
$ python final.py
5. A file called downloader.sh would have been generated in the folder.
6. Copy it to the place where you want the fonts to be downloaded.
7. Navigate to that folder in terminal and run the command
$ sh downloader.sh8. You’ll have a neatly organized collection of fonts. All you gotta do now is extract them from their archives.
Enjoy! And please post your suggestions.
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python Final.py
Traceback (most recent call last): File “Final.py”, line 26, in directory = soup.find(‘title’).contentsAttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘contents’