ThomsonOneDownloader

Dowanload pdf reports from the Thomson ONE database from http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1423

You need a CWL (Campus Wide Login) account to access it.

Thomson One works with IE 10 & 11, so the script only works on Windows.

To Set Up

• Install git and clone this repo

• Install Python 3.7 and pip: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

• Add Python and Python/Scripts to PATH: https://datatofish.com/add-python-to-windows-path/

• Install dependencies:

pip install selenium
pip install pandas
pip install xlrd
pip install pywinauto==0.6.6
pip install pyautogui

• Add IEDriverServer to PATH, and configure IE per: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver#required-configuration

To Run

From cmd, execute python downloader.py Make sure that no other instance of IE is running.