How to download multiple formats of a web font from the (official) Google Web Fonts repo?

Question

I\'ve learnt that Google automatically serves TTF, EOT, WOFF, or SVG font files depending on the

Answer 1

I am not affiliate with this business or website in anyway, but I was able to get all of the formats I needed at onlinefontconverter.com.

I needed eot, svg, woff and ttf formats. I already had the ttf. I uploaded it and the site created the rest -- all in a few minutes.

Answer 2

I wrote a PowerShell script to automatically download the fonts served to several different User Agents. For the basic font, it gets all four formats (woff, ttf, svg, eot). Google doesn't seem to serve SVG and EOT files for the bold and italic weights.

$agents = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0",`
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8; de-at) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1",`
    "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 7.1; Trident/5.0)",`
    "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7",`
    "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; GTB7.4; InfoPath.2; SV1; .NET CLR 3.3.69573; WOW64; en-US)"

foreach($arg in $args) {
    $arg;
    foreach($agent in $agents) {
        $agent;
        $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
        [void]$webclient.Headers.Add("user-agent", $agent)
        $url = "http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=$arg"

        $css = $webclient.DownloadString($url)
        $css
        $fonts = $css |
            Select-String -AllMatches "http://[A-Za-z0-9/._?&=%-]+" |
            Select-Object -ExpandProperty Matches |
            Select-Object -ExpandProperty Value

        foreach($font in $fonts) {
            $font
            $fontfile = [System.Io.Path]::GetFileName((new-object System.Uri $font).LocalPath)
            [void]$webclient.DownloadFile($font, "$pwd\$fontfile")
        }
    }
}

Once it's in a .ps1 file, it can be called with the fonts to download as arguments:

PS> .\DownloadFonts.ps1 "Open+Sans:400,700,400italic,700italic"

The script will output the CSS pulled from Google's servers to help you figure out which file is which (e.g. in my case the SVG font was pulled as a file called "font").

This is based on bash scripts posted by RichardN and ldeck on the blog post Locally Caching Google Web Fonts.

For reference, here is ldeck's bash script:

#!/bin/sh

for family in $*; do
 for url in $( {
 for agent in \
 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0' \
 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8; de-at) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1' \
 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 7.1; Trident/5.0)' ;
 do
 curl -A "$agent" -s "http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=$family" | \
 grep -oE 'http://[A-Za-z0-9/._-]+'; \
 done } | sort -u ) ;
 do
 extn=${url##*.} ;
 file=$(echo "$family"| tr +[:upper:] _[:lower:]);
 echo $url $file.$extn;
 curl -s "$url" -o "$file.$extn";
 done
done

Further reference: Using HTML5 AppCache.

Answer 3

https://github.com/google/fonts

old answer: I made online clone of https://code.google.com/archive/p/googlefontdirectory/ :)

https://bitbucket.org/Tymek/google-web-fonts/ There you go!

Answer 4

You can clone the Google webfonts directory at http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/

You can also get single font files at http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/#font_name

Answer 5

======= UPDATED 2016-05-31 =======

I made a tiny PHP script to get download links from a Google Fonts CSS import URL like: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,700|Slabo+27px|Lato:400,300italic,900italic

You can use this tool here: http://nikoskip.me/gfonts.php

For instance, if you use the above import URL, you will get this:

I got tired about updating this answer on each new release of Chrome, because they always change the way you can spoof the User Agent string, so please use this script instead.

======= OLD SOLUTION =======

Using DevTools from Chrome you can override the User Agent.

How to:

1. Get the font that you need at Google Fonts page.
2. You will get an URL to import in your CSS, like: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin:500,700,500italic,700italic
3. Open that URL in your browser and you will see the full URL where you can actually download the font.
4. Go to Developer Tools (F12) and press ESC
5. Select "Emulation" tab and then click on "Network" sub-tab
6. Finally on Spoof user agent select IE9 for EOT format, Android 4 for TTF and this UA String for SVG: Mozilla/4.0 (iPad; CPU OS 4_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3 (thanks anonymous)

Answer 6

I've wrote a python script as part of my work on the open-source project MDIDX. it will get all possible font formats of a given font-family from Google Fonts CDN. It's naive - brute-forcing common platforms' user-agents

It can be simplified like so:

import re
import os
import requests

def main():
    font_family = "Material Icons"
    output_directory = "fonts"
    download_fonts(font_family, output_directory)

def download_fonts(font_family, output_directory, output_file_name=None):
    if not os.path.isdir(output_directory):
        os.makedirs(output_directory)

    if not output_file_name:
        output_file_name = font_family.lower().replace(" ","-")

    user_agents = USER_AGENTS.splitlines()
    user_agents = map(lambda x: x, user_agents)

    font_urls = set()
    for user_agent in user_agents:
        url = 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family={}'.format("+".join(font_family.strip().split()))
        r = requests.get(url, headers={"user-agent": user_agent})
        r.raise_for_status()
        urls = re.findall('url\((.*?)\)', r.text)
        urls = map(str, urls)
        urls = filter(str, urls)
        font_urls.update(urls)

    fonts_map = {font_url.split('.')[-1].lower(): font_url for font_url in font_urls}

    for file_extension, url in fonts_map.items():
        file_path = os.path.join(output_directory, '{output_file_name}.{file_extension}'.format(output_file_name=output_file_name, file_extension=file_extension))
        _download_file(url, file_path)

USER_AGENTS = """
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090913 Firefox/3.5.3
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090718 Firefox/3.5.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.219.6 Safari/532.1
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; en-US)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.1; Windows XP)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2227.0 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; da-dk) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1
Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; es-ES) Presto/2.9.181 Version/12.00
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; fr-fr; HTC Desire Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; SAMSUNG SM-N920C Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/6.2 Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Mobile Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 BIDUBrowser/2.x Safari/537.31
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.4.2; zh-cn; GT-I9500 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)Version/4.0 MQQBrowser/5.0 QQ-URL-Manager Mobile Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Android 8.0.0; Tablet; rv:57.0) Gecko/57.0 Firefox/57.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Android 8.1.0; Mobile; rv:61.0) Gecko/61.0 Firefox/61.0
"""

def _download_file(url, file_path):
    r = requests.get(url)
    r.raise_for_status()
    with open(file_path, 'wb') as f:
        f.write(r.content)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()