README.md

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
filename=title

Config	Description	Support
rendertime	waiting time in millisecond for single page rendering	scribd.com
output	output directory	scribd.com slideshare.net everand.com
filename	output filename title: filename = default filename / title (otherwise, filename = ID)	scribd.com slideshare.net

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