This Python script allows you to automate the process of downloading digital assets from Paizo.com. It handles logging in, asset personalization, and downloading all available digital content, including PDFs and ZIP files. It also supports retrying failed downloads and properly naming downloaded files, avoiding overwrites.

• Asset Listing: Lists all available assets and allows you to choose which assets to download.
• Personalization: Automates the asset personalization process before downloading.
• Dynamic File Naming: Ensures that files are saved with unique names, appending numbers to filenames if necessary.
• ZIP Extraction: Automatically unzips downloaded ZIP files and renames their contents.
• Error Handling: Retries downloads up to 3 times in case of errors.
• Debug Output: Provides detailed information during the download process for troubleshooting.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/paizo-dl.git
   cd paizo-dl

2. Install the required Python packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

To list all available digital assets on your Paizo account without downloading them:

python3 paizo-dl.py --list-assets

To download all available digital assets:

python3 paizo-dl.py

To enable debug output for more detailed information:

python3 paizo-dl.py --debug

• `--list-assets`: List all available assets without downloading.
• `--debug`: Enable debug output for detailed information.

• Python 3.6
• `requests`
• `beautifulsoup4`
• `zipfile`

To install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

The script uses session cookies to log into Paizo. First open your browser, navigate to paizo.com, authenticate Use web developer tools to grab the sessionID cookie Put it in the source code. Repeat with any other cookie for good measure. Keep the browser window open, if script cant load assets recheck that the browser is still logged in

Line 35 in the code, where you configure the COOKIES, put a working sessionID.

• Auth could be handled better... A bit ugly to use SessionID like this
• Some assets may require multiple retries due to server-side delays in personalization. The script will retry downloads up to 3 times.
• If the paizo.com website ever changes, even slightly, this script will probably break. Its a whack a mole game. Good luck.

Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests to improve the script!

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch for your feature/bugfix.
3. Commit your changes.
4. Push your branch and open a pull request.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Hans-Petter Fjeld aka atluxity

Here’s an example of running the script to download all assets:

python3 paizo-dl.py --debug

The script will handle personalization, download assets, and rename files to prevent overwrites.