Installation

From PyPI (recommended)

This option is recommended for most users, you will have the most stable experience.

1. install the python program:

pip3 install pyscandl

2. install nodejs

   • windows installer can be found here: https://nodejs.org/en/download
   • for linux use your distributions package manager
   • for mac either do like windows or use homebrew

brew install node

Updating

When a new release is made you can upgrade your installation using:

pip3 install pyscandl -U

Using setup.py

This option is recommended for devellopement and people wanting to use the bleeding edge before the releases. Syability is not guaranteed.

1. install the python program:

git clone https://github.com/Ara0n/pyscandl.git
cd pyscandl
python3 setup.py install

2. install nodejs

   • windows installer can be found here: https://nodejs.org/en/download
   • for linux use your distributions package manager
   • for mac either do like windows or use homebrew

brew install node

Legacy (Not recommended)

Warning

This was the old method used before setup.py and PyPI, i don’t recommend to anyone to use this method anymore !

From source

1. check if you have python3.7 or above installed (modern installations normally have it installed by default now)
2. check if you have the corresponding pip installed
3. clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Ara0n/pyscandl.git

4. install the dependencies of pyscandl

cd pyscandl
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Note

the name of the python used might differ depending on your OS and or pythons installed, just be sure to use one with pip and that is python3.7 or higher

5. install nodejs

   • windows installer can be found here: https://nodejs.org/en/download
   • for linux use your distributions package manager
   • for mac either do like windows or use homebrew

brew install node

The program is now ready to be used, don’t forget from time to time to check if new code and features were added and if yes do a git pull

From release

1. check if you have python3.7 or above installed (modern installations normally have it installed by default now)
2. check if you have the corresponding pip installed
3. download the latest release here
4. install the dependencies of pyscandl

cd pyscandl
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Note

the name of the python used might differ depending on your OS and or pythons installed, just be sure to use one with pip and that is python3.7 or higher

5. install nodejs

   • windows installer can be found here: https://nodejs.org/en/download
   • for linux use your distributions package manager
   • for mac either do like windows or use homebrew

brew install node

The program is now ready to be used, don’t forget from time to time to check if a new release is out here and if yes download it.

Requirements

The current python requirements are:

requests~=2.24.0
img2pdf~=0.3.6
Pillow~=7.2.0
pexpect~=4.8.0
cfscrape~=2.1.1
beautifulsoup4~=4.9.1

Nodejs is also needed.