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How To Download Documents From Scribd For Free
Last Updated on January 28, 2020 by Prajjwal Rajput
Howdy Guys! I know why you’re here, you’ve probably found a book on Scribd and you want to
download that book but it costs you, so you’ve been googled how to download that book from
Scribd for free. If I’m right then you’re going to download that book for free ;), because I’m going
to share the Scribd downloader which will help you to download documents from Scribd for free.
Sounds interesting!! YES!
You usually use the torrents or any other websites to download the ebook that you want to read
but sometime you won’t found your ebook on your favorite websites that you want to download,
I’m sure that this thing has also happened with you. Well, do you know where the experts
download any kind of digital book or ebooks without surfing a lot on the internet and wasting
time? You might have been aware of the place where you can download all kinds of written books,
Yeah! it’s the Scribd!!
Now you know the little bit about Scribd, and you found a book on Scribd that you want to
download but Scribd have their plans that you need to take membership of the respective plan
and then you’ll be able to read and download that book. But on the internet, everyone is looking
for the free method to get something without spending a single buck and you people need a
free way to download documents from Scribd or in other words you need Scribd downloader that
can download the book. So today we’ll show you how to save Scribd documents for free on your
computer. Its the generation of Soft Copies and you won’t actually like to carry and read those
thick & heavy books it’s so boring… So that’s why we all use Scribd to read our favorite books.
Table of Contents [hide]
1 Want To Know More About Scribd?
2 Advantages of Using Scribd Downloader!
3 How To Download Documents From Scribd Downloader
3.1 Method #1: By Uploading Method
3.2 Method #2: Download Documents From Scribd Using Access Key
3.3 Method #3: Download Scribd Books Using GreaseMonkey Script
3.4 Method #4: Download Scribd Books through Python Script
3.5 Method #5: One Month Free Subscription from Scribd
4 Conclusion
Want To Know More About Scribd?
Actually, Scribd.com is a digital library where you can read and download millions of documents
or books. Scribd has 60 million documents on its open publishing platform. It is a huge platform
to read the variety of books and if you like any book then you can also download it by paying
some subscription fee. Scribd has 80 million registered users and Scribd has been referred to as
“The Netflix for Books”
Scribd Services are also available for both Android and iOS devices as well as Amazon Kindle
Fire. So overall Scribd is a huge and the best platform to read and download any book but you all
need to pay some membership fee but here we’ve shared 3 methods that will help you to
download any book for free using Scribd, so keep reading.
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Advantages of Using Scribd Downloader!
As I told you in the above text that the Scribd is the NetFlix of books so in the world it is used by
millions of readers. If you also read books from Scribd then you might be need of a downloader to
save these books on your computer to read later or share with others. So that’s why you should
use the Scribd downloader to save documents on your PC for free. Here I mentioned some
advantages of using a downloader over reading online.
This is free, safe, secure and easy to use.
It doesn’t require any software installation.
This is just a trick and not actually a downloader itself
If you’re in a hurry and don’t have time to read a book so you can use it to save the book for
future reference.
You can access any book for free.
No need to pay for the premium membership.
And much more.
How To Download Documents From Scribd Downloader
Well, As I told you before we aren’t going to share a tool or utility like downloader or something
else to download Scribd documents but we will show you some easy methods which is 100%
working now and you can follow one of them whichever is suitable for you. So here I’m going to
share 3 working methods to save Scribd documents on your computer
Method #1: By Uploading Method
There’s a loophole in the system of Scribd so you’ll be able to download or view any Document for
free and save in your PC without purchasing their membership plan, to apply this method follow
the steps given below.
Obviously Open Scribd.com
Now search for the book or document that you want to download for free and now copy
the URL of the page or document from the address bar.
After copying the URL. Now you need to Login to Scribd, you can use Facebook Login for
quick signing in.
Once you signed in to your FB account
you’ll be directed to the subscription page, simply skip subscription option and just GET
BACK TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
Now Create a New document write anything in it and upload it and write the Title and
Description of the document and click on “Done”
Don’t Close that page! now paste the URL that you’ve copied in the address bar for
downloading your chosen document.
Once you pasted the URL, now you should see the download and you can choose the
format to save your document in, select the format and click on “Download” button.
Your document should start downloading and save on your computer.
Now you can read your document and enjoy, so it is the very easiest method to download from
Scribd and you’ve seen that we didn’t use any Scribd downloader. We just downloaded by
simply uploading a document.
Method #2: Download Documents From Scribd Using Access Key
Open Scribd.com, open the document page that you want to download for free
Now right click on that page and then click the View page source
And now press Ctrl + F or ⌘
⌘ + F and search for the access_key, now you can easily identify
the key, copy it anywhere.
Now replace the access_key and document_id in the below URL then open this URL after
making changes.
http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=108992419&access_key=key-
13davbcdewnewn9m5w02
Now the document should load, once it completely loaded, print the document and save it
as PDF format
So this is another method to download paid documents from Scribd for free and it works as
online Scribd Downloader. That’s it! now you can download a document without buying the plans.
If this method won’t working so check the 3rd method below.
Method #3: Download Scribd Books Using GreaseMonkey Script
This is the 3rd and last method to download the Scribd Documents for free. You know what’s the
best thing in this method, you don’t need to login to your Scribd account, this method is based on
a GreaseMonkey Script so you should have Firefox browser installed on your PC or Mac if you
haven’t installed yet then download Firefox and install now! so follow the below steps carefully to
download documents for free
Download the Firefox browser from above link and install it, then install the Add-on called
GreaseMonkey
Now download the GreaseMonkey script and then install it in GreaseMonkey (you can
Google how to install script in Greasemonkey Extension )
Now go to your document page that you want to download, hit the Download button and
now you will see the magic that the subscription page will get the bypass and you’ll be able
to download your document from Scribd for free.
Method #4: Download Scribd Books through Python Script
This is the new method to download the documents from Scribd. It is a python script which works
as a Scribd downloader. It is created by the Erik Fong, all credits go to him. And I found this script
on Github, this script allows you to download the Scribd documents.
The best thing about this script is it can download the document even it is blurred or require the
authentication, it works perfectly. This script can download the text and images from the desired
documents separately. So if you want you can combine images and text into a PDF by using any
suitable tool. Follow the below steps to download any document.
1. Open the DLSCRIB.COM
2. Then enter the document URL
3. Now click on the Generate Download Link button
4. Then wait for few seconds, now you should get a download link which can download your
document on your computer
So this is how the script works, I hope this will work for you. If you liked this script so appreciate
his hard work for making this script and support him on Github
Method #5: One Month Free Subscription from Scribd
There’s one way to download documents from Scribd for free but in limited time. Yes, you can get
the 1-month trial subscription from Scribd. All you need to this create an account on Scribd and
five your payment details but it will not gonna cost you. It’s just a trial account, they just ask for
the security purpose, but you can use your Paypal account too.
1. Create an account on Scribd.com. You can sign-in with your Facebook or Google account
as well.
2. Once your account is created, now claim your 1-month trial subscription. It will ask you to
enter your card details or Paypal account.
3. Now select the PayPal payment method and sign in.
4. Then browse the document or book that you want to download/read. Download that
document if the author already gave permission to view/save the document.
So this is another method download Scribd documents but it’s not much effective like the above
methods. So you have to try all these methods one by one to download the document.
Conclusion
So, guys, these are the 3 best and easiest methods to download your favorite document or book
from Scribd for free or without paying them money. If your friend also wants a digital book and
it’s only available on Scribd then stop him to spend his money on purchasing the book from
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19 thoughts on “How To Download Documents From Scribd For Free”
Pravin Kumar
December 5, 2017 at 7:48 PM
Very good keep it up work
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anitha
April 10, 2018 at 2:50 PM
i’ve been dying to download this textbook and u made it damn easy!!!
thanku
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Nutmug
May 2, 2018 at 4:52 AM
any ideas for iphone????
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Paranam Kid
May 6, 2018 at 1:45 PM
There is no link to the Greasemonkey script !!! Please provide.
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Prajjwal Rajput
July 12, 2018 at 1:43 PM
The article has been updated! check again to download script
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Prajjwal Rajput
July 12, 2018 at 1:44 PM
The article has been updated! check again to download script.
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Lola
July 21, 2018 at 5:45 AM
i have subscribed for the free trial but still can’t find the download button on the windows
version of the site but i have it in the app version. My question is if i download the
books/audiobooks in my phone will i lose them after the free 1month trial ends? and how
do i back them up from my phone to my pc? thanks
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Devious
August 25, 2018 at 1:41 PM
Method 1 didn’t make any sense. Where are you pasting the URL exactly after clicking
done? and Method 2 didn’t work sadly.
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Abdul Majid
August 30, 2018 at 11:22 AM
The method of Python Script in not working.
I need your help and assistance..
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ritiek
November 23, 2018 at 8:31 PM
Hey, I’m the author of the Python based downloading tool. I wanted to clear a
misunderstanding in this article. Erik Fong is the guy behind https://dlscrib.com/ and it
doesn’t use the Python code as this article seems to claim.
His website uses some other way to fetch documents off Scribd that I’m not aware of. If
you look at the website, he links to the source code at https://github.com/uid/gdoc-
downloader.
The Python tool mentioned in this article and his website are two completely different
things.
By the way, lots of love to the guy for building the website. In most cases, It seems to
perform better than my hacky way of scraping content off Scribd. You guys should try
that first.
In most cases, the instructions in the README should work fine but If anybody here faces
any trouble in getting the Python based downloading tool working locally, feel free to
open an issue at https://github.com/ritiek/scribd-downloader/issues, I’ll try to reach out
as soon as possible.
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jose corona
December 8, 2018 at 8:51 AM
It works!!
Thank you so much!
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Stephen Beets
February 11, 2019 at 10:35 AM
@ritiek I hate to inform you but that DLScrib website you gave does NOT appear to be
working. I’ve tried turning off my ad blockers, NoScript and refreshing all to no avail. Each
and every attempt I have made to get it to work just returns the message “Apache is
functioning normally”. Now, the doc I’m trying to download off of Scribd will be linked
below. If anyone here can help me, such would be greatly appreciated.
https://www.scribd.com/document/297240804/Vossloh-Espana-Euro-4000-Us
If you need to reach out to me, my email is as follows:
BCStephen789(AT)aol(DOT)com
If for some reason you don’t see my email address, please leave a reply and I’ll get back
to you when I can.
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Prajjwal Rajput
May 8, 2019 at 2:02 PM
The document that you want to download linked above can be download easily just, hit
the download button after logging in your account and select the file type (PDF or TXT)
in which you want this document in.
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J.p.narayan
February 17, 2019 at 9:04 PM
thank information sharing
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sun
March 5, 2019 at 7:55 AM
Step 1 : Open Scribd.com (https://www.scribd.com/) and search for the document you
want and open it.
Step 2 : Right-click on the address bar and copy the URL of that page.
Step 3 : Now go to Free Scribd Downloader (http://scrdownloader.com) And paste the
URL into the Input Box.
Step 4 : Finally, Click on download button.
This application will automatically bypass Scribd’s payment page and give you the option
to download your document.
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Abraham
July 29, 2019 at 4:27 AM
Hi,
I tried and it doesn´t work. It shows the following message: “Sorry, our service is offline
right now. Please try again later.”
I´ll try it again tomorrow, but not sure if this is an only temporary failure or permanent.
Thank you!
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valentia
September 11, 2019 at 4:32 AM
Thank you for putting this information together! As of Sep 19, the dlscribd.com option
has worked best for me after all!
Since I’m browsing from Tor, my biggest struggle was completing the captcha.
However, I’ve been trying to download another file and I’m getting a message of “server
overloaded”, which I still haven’t figured out if it’s temporary or not.
Regarding other methods: I was hoping the source code would work for Tor Browser as it
did for Mozilla, but I don’t think it does. Has anyone tried it before? In my case, I couldn’t
locate “ACCESS_KEY” nor “-key” in the page script (only in the embedding code, as
suggested by other users). Then, with the new URL in place, Tor never actually “loaded”
the file or gave me the option to print it as a .pdf document. The only options were
downloading/visualizing it as .swf, which I couldn’t convert at all.
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Raheel
November 11, 2019 at 7:16 PM
Thank you for post how to download scribd documents . I was wondering from so many
times and finally I found it. Thanks again.
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Mohd Zaid
December 29, 2019 at 5:59 PM
Hey Prajjwal thanks for such an awesome piece of content. I have read dozens of articles
on how to download articles from scribd and none worked and then I landed on your site
and your method works…
Thanks and keep helping!!!
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