vfrico / fontsquirrel_dl

Python tools to download fonts from FontSquirrel

fontsquirrel_dl

This is a Python 3.x library which provides an easy access to FontSquirrel API.

Some cache is stored to get data faster.

##Documentation This library allows to:

1. Download all fonts freely available on Font Squirrel
2. Download a family (using url_name)
3. Return data from Font Squirrel on a similar way on Google Fonts

#1: Download all familes on FontSquirrel

Font Squirrel's API allows access to free and open fonts. All fonts which needs to go to another site are not available here. The function is contained on FontSquirrel class. It takes one argument: the folder where you want to download and extract the fonts.

import FontSquirrel
FontSquirrel.get_family("raleway",'font/')

#2: Download one family from FontSquirrel

Once you know the url_name for the font you want, you can use the get_family() function. Takes one argument: the folder where you have to download.

import FontSquirrel
FontSquirrel.get_all_families("Fonts/")

#3: Get Json data like Google Font's API

You can get the data from FontSquirrel on a similar way that Google provides with his Web Fonts API. It does not have the same atributes: some of them are not available.

{ 'kind': 'fontsquirrel',
  'family': #family_name
  'family_url': #family_urlname
  'category': #Classification
  "variants" : [ "regular" .. "thin" ]
  "files" : {
     "regular" : "Family-variant.otf",
     "thin" : "Family-variant2.otf",
  }

The files are placed into the zip associated to the family.

##API

Download one family from FontSquirrel

Once you know the url_name for the font you want, you can use the get_family() function. Takes one argument: the folder where you have to download.

import FontSquirrel
FontSquirrel.get_family("raleway",'font/')

fontsquirrel_dl's Issues

ImportError: No module named request

Python 2.7.15rc1 (default, Apr 15 2018, 21:51:34) 
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import fontsquirrel
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "fontsquirrel.py", line 30, in <module>
    import urllib.request
ImportError: No module named request

fs.get_all_families should continue if errors are occuring

I am trying to use fs.get_all_families(target_directory). It stops after a few downloaded fonts:

Python 3.7.3 (default, May 25 2019, 04:51:33) 
[GCC 7.3.0] on haiku1

fs = fontsquirrel.FontSquirrel()
fs.get_all_families("fontsdir/")

(...)
INFO:root:Downloading zip from http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/download/After-Shok
INFO:root:Downloading zip from http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/download/agane
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/boot/home/fontsquirrel_dl-master/fontsquirrel.py", line 198, in get_all_families
    zip_file.extract(filename, path=dest+url_name)
  File "/packages/python3-3.7.3-2/.self/lib/python3.7/zipfile.py", line 1599, in extract
    return self._extract_member(member, path, pwd)
  File "/packages/python3-3.7.3-2/.self/lib/python3.7/zipfile.py", line 1638, in _extract_member
    member = self.getinfo(member)
  File "/packages/python3-3.7.3-2/.self/lib/python3.7/zipfile.py", line 1395, in getinfo
    'There is no item named %r in the archive' % name)
KeyError: "There is no item named 'Aganè 45 (light).ttf' in the archive"

It should should continue if errors are occuring.