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Scribd-Downloader
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(I also found an online service https://dlscrib.com/ created by Erik Fong
_. It doesn't
use this script as some people seem to think!).
Current features:
+------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Type | Downloadable without Scribd premium | Requires Scribd premium for full download | +============+=====================================+===========================================+ | Documents | Yes | No | +------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Books | Yes | Yes | +------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Audiobooks | Yes | Yes | +------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
Some information about Scribd documents:
There are two types of documents on Scribd:
- Documents made up using a collection of images and
- Actual documents where the text can be selected, copied etc.
This script takes a different approach to both of them:
-
Documents consisting of a collection of images is straightforward and this script will simply download the induvidual images which can be combined to
.pdf
by passing--pdf
option to the tool. Simple. -
Actual documents where the text can be selected are hard to tackle. If we feed such a document to this tool, only the text present in document will be downloaded. Scribd seems to use javascript to somehow combine text and images. So far, I haven't been able to combine them with Python in a way they look like the original document.
Installation
Make sure you're using Python 3 (Python 2 is not supported by a few dependencies). Then run these commands:
::
$ pip install scribd-downloader
or install the development version with:
::
$ python setup.py install
Usage
::
usage: scribdl [-h] [-i] [-p] URL
Download documents and books from scribd.com
positional arguments:
URL scribd url to download
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i, --images download url made up of images
-p, --pdf convert to pdf (*Nix: imagemagick)
Examples
Scribd Documents
Downloading text from document containing selectable text: :: $ scribdl https://www.scribd.com/document/55949937/33-Strategies-of-War
(Text will be saved side by side in a .md
file in the current
working directory)
Download document containing images; use the --images
option (the tool cannot figure out this on its own):
::
$ scribdl -i https://scribd.com/doc/17142797/Case-in-Point
(Images will be saved in the current working directory)
Scribd Books
The below command will generate an .md
file of the book in the current working directory:
::
$ scribdl https://www.scribd.com/read/189087235/Confessions-of-a-Casting-Director-Help-Actors-Land-Any-Role-with-Secrets-from-Inside-the-Audition-Room
Pass --pdf
option to convert the generated output to a PDF.
This will only dowload the book content available without owning a premium account on Scribd. See the below section for downloading full books if you own a premium Scribd account.
Scribd Audiobooks
This will download .mp3 of the audiobook: :: $ scribdl https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/237606860/100-Ways-to-Motivate-Yourself-Change-Your-Life-Forever
This will only download the preview version of the audiobook. See the below section for downloading complete audiobooks if you own a premium Scribd account.
Downloading complete textual books and audiobooks
If you have a premium Scribd account, you can also download the full version of textual books and audiobooks by intercepting the network requests your browser makes. However, this also requires some experience on your side.
When logged into your premium account on scribd on the web browser, setup a network proxy like Mitmproxy_ and install the SSL certificate so you can monitor HTTPS traffic passing through the browser.
Now open any textual book URL (example <https://www.scribd.com/read/189087235/Confessions-of-a-Casting-Director-Help-Actors-Land-Any-Role-with-Secrets-from-Inside-the-Audition-Room>
) in your browser, your browser
will automatically make network requests to a URL that looks something like https://www.scribd.com/read2/.../access_token.
You need to inspect this network request, and replace the values for headers
and
cookies
in the code here <https://github.com/ritiek/scribd-downloader/blob/master/scribdl/const.py>
.
You should then be able to automatically download full version of both textual books and audiobooks from Scribd using the tool by running the commands as usual.
Disclaimer
Downloading books from Scribd for free maybe prohibited. This tool is meant for educational purposes only. Please support the authors by buying their titles.
License
The MIT License
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.. _Mitmproxy: https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy
.. _Erik Fong: mailto:[email protected] .. _BookURL: https://www.scribd.com/read/189087235/Confessions-of-a-Casting-Director-Help-Actors-Land-Any-Role-with-Secrets-from-Inside-the-Audition-Room .. ConstantValues: