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Since then, Scribd has morphed into an online subscription service, built to read millions
of eBooks, comics, and more online with a Netflix-like subscription service. Despite this
refocus on more mainstream titles and novels, Scribd is still used by millions of people
daily to host and share online documents using the platform built by the site itself. In the
site’s documents section, you’ll find historical papers, political documents, poll results,
and plenty of other information for use in your college assignments, term papers, or just
as a general document of interest. And while viewing these articles is free by itself, albeit
with some limitations on certain documents, downloading this information to your
computer is limited for often than not.
While you should avoid downloading and using others’ documents without paying for a
monthly Scribd decision, at the end of the day, certain users—students specifically—may
find it difficult to pay for the research and other documents provided on the website.
Luckily, there are some ways around these restrictions. Though the three methods
outlined below are both occasionally hit or miss, they often can be used to bypass the
Scribd security and subscription measures, making it easy to view the documents
necessary for your next project or paper. Here’s what to do.
METHOD ONE: UPLOADING DOCUMENTS
Our first method for downloading Scribd documents on the web today relies on
uploading a document of your own to a Scribd account, in order to gain access to the
document you want to download. We’ll be performing our test in Google Chrome,
though you should be able to accomplish this in any modern browser, including Firefox,
Safari, and Microsoft Edge. Start by heading over to Scribd.com and signing up for a new
account. Alternatively, if you already have an account with Scribd, you can use your
existing account by logging in. Scribd supports accounts with both Facebook and Google
sign-ins, so starting a new account is as easy as clicking a button and linking your
account. Once you’ve signed in, find the document you want to download and copy the
URL down to an outside source, like a Google Keep note or Word document.
From here, you’ll want to click the “Download” option on the right side of your display.
This will automatically redirect you to a page designed to help you set up your Scribd
subscription, complete with a 30-day trial. Above this page, however, you’ll see an
option to upload files from your computer, with a button that reads “Select Files to
Upload.” Click this button and, on your computer, prepare any kind of document. If you
have a word processor installed on your computer, like Word or Apple Pages, you can
use that to create a short, meaningless document. Alternately, you can use Google Docs
to create a free document on your computer, and download it to your device. The
document can contain anything, including straight gibberish; we recommend using
a Lorem Ipsum generator if you’re having trouble figuring out what to write. When your
document is uploaded, provide a title for the new file and hit “Save.”
Now, grab that URL we saved earlier in this process and paste it into the address bar at
the top of your web browser. A download button should load on your device, and you’ll
be able to save the Scribd document to your computer. However, we should mention that,
thanks to recent updates from Scribd, we’ve had some difficulties performing this
without first editing the HTML code using the inspect button on your browser. It’s not a
perfect solution, but once you edit the HTML for the View button to lead to your device,
you can download an HTML version of the page, allowing you to take the document
offline. If you have access to Adobe Acrobat Pro (check with your school or teacher),
you can convert the HTML document to a PDF.
In this new page, hit Ctrl+F to open the Find in Page UI in Firefox. In this field, enter the
phrase “access_key,” and upon finding the result in the Scribd source code, highlight and
copy the code to your computer. It should be an alphanumerical code, and appear as ‘key-
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.” Now head back to the original document page in your browser
and look at the URL in the top of the browser. This time, we’re looking for the document
ID number in the URL of your specific page. Unlike the access key, the document ID is
listed in the URL, and consists of several numbers. The URL should appear as
“‘https://www.scribd.com/read/NUMBER/DOCUMENT TITLE.” We’ll be using the
number portion of that link in a moment.
Now, open up a new tab in Firefox. We’re going to create a new URL using the
information provided us by both the access key, the document ID number, and the
following partial URL:
“http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=NUMBER&access_key=ke
y-ACCESS_KEY”. When you’ve pasted this URL into your new tab, replace the number
section with the document ID and the access key area with the access key you grabbed
earlier. Following this, you’ll have to wait a few minutes for the page to load as your
documents begins to download from the Scribd servers. Once your document has finished
loading, use the print option to print to PDF, and your document will be saved to your
computer.
If this method doesn’t work for you, and you receive some form of error message from
Scribd, retry using the first method listed above. Users have reported to us that their
preferred method uses the document upload method listed above.
With your Greasemonkey script installed, you should be able to download Scribd
documents within your browser using the download key that appears on the top of the
page. That said, because Scribd is constantly changing their site, we can’t always
guarantee that you’ll be able to find a script that works. In our tests, we found success
using the script here, along with some of the scripts on GreasyFork, which also include
options to de-blur documents on Scribd.
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Unfortunately, the nature of Scribd means that these methods are far from perfect. Scribd
doesn’t want users to access their document collection for free, and therefore, these
methods are always up in the air for whether or not they’ll work. Typically, trying to
force Scribds hand will get you somewhere, from a full-blown document downloaded
from their servers to a saved and converted HTML document that can be used for PDF
files. As always, we update this article once every couple months with the newest
information we can, and our comment section is a great way to see who else is having
success downloading from Scribd. None of the methods performed here are by any means
perfect, but with enough time, energy, and effort, making progress within Scribd to gain
access to documents for your homework or studying isn’t too far away.
Basically the KEY-POINT here is: You need to upload a document in order to download any ‘premium’ docs.
Not sure, if this is a vulnerability of the site or a legitimate feature.
Ann
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ayoobi
Naveen
md faique
May 23, 2018 at 12:16 am
1st method works like a charm
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amit Kumar
Thanks buddy!
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maria
Andrews
mj
Yo
zaffy
sunny bhandari
Blessed
Ilovetechjunkie
igoa
kenken
Andrew
SolidSteak
Ana
Ann
Tried Method 1 but doesnt work using Chrome, particularly with HTML code using inspect button, thanks.
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Indie Jone
www.page-rank.pl
Brief but very precise information… Thank you for sharing this one.
A must read post!
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ihightower
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Jason
rodzmar
Dan
Nimi
Rusty
January 4, 2018 at 10:42 pm
Same. Could use an update.
Nimi
struggling
Afd
Anon
So scroll all the way through the document, then select all the image files in the media section that are actually
pages, and you’ll have your data
thisworks
febri
September 21, 2017 at 7:46 pm
Thank you, you make my day.
if someone confuse with 2nd option just try this.
1. sign up to scribd
2. upload whatever file use generator to fillc contain with word
3. if done, then open your url that you want to download, it will be downloadable
Daniel
Dave
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