Scribd-dl

About

Scribd-dl helps downloading:

• documents on scribd.com and slideshare.net without membership / sign-in
• podcast audios on everand.com

Prerequisites

To use Scridb-dl, you need to install Node.js. It is recommended that you use the latest LTS version available.

Please install Node.js using pre-built installers for your platform. You may encounter incompatibility issues with different development tools otherwise.

To check that Node.js was installed correctly, type the following commands in your terminal client:

node -v
npm -v

The commands should print the versions of Node.js and npm accordingly.

Setup

1. Download repository

git clone https://github.com/rkwyu/scribd-dl

2. Install dependencies

cd ./scribd-dl
npm install

Configuration

Configuration can be altered in config.ini.

[SCRIBD]
rendertime=100

[DIRECTORY]
output=output

rendertime is the waiting time in millisecond for single page rendering on scribd.com, it is only applicable for default mode.
output is the ouput directory for generated .pdf files.

Usage (CLI)

Usage: npm start [options] url
Options:  
  /i        image-based: generated by image snapshots taken for pages on scribd.com

Example 1: Download 《The Minds of Billy Milligan》 on scribd.com

npm start "https://www.scribd.com/doc/249398282/The-Minds-of-Billy-Milligan-Daniel-Keyes"

Example 2: Download 《The Minds of Billy Milligan》 using image-based method on scribd.com

npm start /i "https://www.scribd.com/doc/249398282/The-Minds-of-Billy-Milligan-Daniel-Keyes"

Example 3: Download 《Everything You Need To Know About ChatGPT》 on slideshare.net

npm start "https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chatgpt-8ba3/266783915"

Example 4: Download all 《TED Talks Daily》 episodes on everand.com

npm start "https://www.everand.com/podcast-show/414106971/TED-Talks-Daily"

Example 5: Download 《Sunday Pick: How to care for the people who take care of us (w/ Ai-jen Poo)》 on everand.com

npm start "https://www.everand.com/listen/podcast/731670963"

Support URL Format

• https://www.scribd.com/doc/**
• https://www.scribd.com/embeds/**
• https://www.slideshare.net/**
• https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/**
• https://www.everand.com/podcast-show/**
• https://www.everand.com/podcast/**
• https://www.everand.com/listen/podcast/**

Development Plan

• Scribd obfuscates the .pdf files, the texts copied from the documents might become strange garbled message. De-obfuscating is one of the future plan.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License