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Originally marketed as the “YouTube” for documents, Scribd began its operation as a
way for anyone to publish and host their documents and writing online. Born out of
the need for one of the site’s creators to host his father’s medical research without
having to pay for publication and wait over a year for the documents to be published,
the site gained notoriety in 2009 after signing a deal with several publications,
including The New York Times, Huf ngton Post, TechCrunch, and several other blogs
and publications to host their documents, as well as for their Scribd Store, which
allowed users to sell digital copies of their work online.
Since then, Scribd has morphed into an online subscription service, built to read
millions of eBooks, comics, and more online with a Net ix-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 nd historical papers, political
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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
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While you should avoid downloading and using others’ documents without paying for
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METHOD ONE: UPLOADING DOCUMENTS

First, it’s important to note that this is method one for a reason. Although we have
three methods on this list, this is the one that we’ve had the most luck with, and as of
March 2019, it’s still the one that works reliably. However, it’s not perfect, so if this
method ever goes down, let us know in the comments and try our other two methods
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Our rst method for downloading Scribd documents on the web today relies on
uploading a document of your own to a(https://www.techjunkie.com)
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
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Web Appsand Google sign-ins, so starting a new account
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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 les 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
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trouble guring out what to write. When your document is uploaded, provide a title
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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 dif culties performing
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METHOD TWO: USING THE PAGE SOURCE CODE

The second of two methods used for viewing Scribd documents, this involves using
Mozilla Firefox to view the page’s source code to gain access to the page’s info. As
mentioned above, we’ve experienced some hit or miss results with this method, but
since it only takes a couple minutes of your time to try, it’s worth trying anyway. You’ll
know this method has failed if you receive a message that announces an invalid key
error. Otherwise, let’s get going with your Scribd document. This was originally our
top-recommended way to download Scribd documents without paying for a
membership, but we’ve heard from enough users having dif culty with this process to
demote it to a backup method.
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to download) to the Scribd document you’re looking to
save to your computer. Though Scribd also carries full-length novels and other works
of ction, we recommend only using this for non ction documents and other sources
for your projects, papers, and research. Inside your document’s preview, right-click the
document and select “View Page Source” from the menu. This will open a new tab in
your browser, displaying the source information for your Scribd target.
In this new page, hit Ctrl+F to open the Find in Page UI in Firefox. In this eld, enter
the phrase “access_key,” and upon nding 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 speci c 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=key-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
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few minutes for the page to load as your documents begins to download from the
Scribd servers. Once your document has nished 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 rst method listed above. Users have reported to us that their
preferred method uses the document upload method listed above.
METHOD THREE: GREASEMONKEY SCRIPTS
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multiple different Greasemonkey scripts to
download your document, in addition to using Firefox. This has been hit or miss with
us as well, especially as extensions and plugins age and Scribd continues to update
their site. Still, it’s worth mentioning if only for the sake of completion. The rst thing
you’ll need to make sure you have is Firefox. Greasemonkey is a Firefox-only extension,
and though Tampermonkey exists for Chrome, we’re going to need to use Firefox for
this one. Install Greasemonkey from the Firefox plugin store, and head over to this site
(https://frddl.github.io/scribd-bypasser/) to install the Scribd Greasemonkey extension.
There are actually several of these that exist online, and each may be worth trying until
you nd the correct one for you.
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 nd a script that works. In our tests, we found success
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using the script here (https://frddl.github.io/scribd-bypasser/), along with some of the
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de-blur documents on Scribd.
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somewhere, from a full-blown document
downloaded from their servers to a saved and converted HTML document that can be
used for PDF les. 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.
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REPLY Sahil
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REPLYTOCOM=42121#RESPOND)
July 24, 2019 at 9:23 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-42121)
Didn’t bother with the 1st method. Tried the 2nd method, but didn’t work for me. The third method
worked brilliantly. Installed lots of un-blur script at once, so don’t know which one worked, however
now I have access to the document I wanted. So, thank you so much for the hack. Loved it!
REPLY Matheus Justino

July 7, 2019 at 1:20 pm (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-41129)
#1 worked! Thanks a lot! <3
REPLY Mark
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Method #1 Worked perfectly ! Thanks !
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#1 is Excellent! It worked for me. Thanks!
REPLY Rex(HTTPS://WWW.TECHJUNKIE.COM/DOWNLOAD-SCRIBD-DOCUMENT-FREE/?
34281)
June the 5th 2019
Didn’t try Method 1 as it asks me to put my payment info (and I won’t)
Method 2 didn’t work
Method 3 worked partially, had to download GreaseFork unblurring add-ons to GreaseMonkey to
make it work (tried different ones, some didn’t work)
REPLY Wibble
May 10, 2019 at 8:41 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-33057)
Method 1 (upload any document) working May 2019. Thanks.
REPLY Kemmler
May 3, 2019 at 2:49 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-32790)
Thanks dude! It works perfectly! May 2019
REPLY Lomo
April 13, 2019 at 3:21 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-32085)
Yes…. It’s work for me April 2019
REPLY BT
April 4, 2019 at 2:58 pm (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-31836)
Thanks, works on april 2019 :))
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April 3, 2019 at 2:51 pm (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-31798)
Method 1 worked perfectly. Thanks so much.
REPLY Kurt
March 27, 2019 at 5:19 pm (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-
31595)
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March 9, 2019 at 1:45 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-
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method 1 is still working..its great
REPLY Downloader
February 19, 2019 at 8:07 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-
30613)
Method 1 still works on 19, Feb 2019. Thank you !
REPLY Bob Loblaw

February 16, 2019 at 5:09 pm (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-
30536)
First still works – Feb 19, 2019. Generated a Lorem Ipsum doc, saved it as html, opened it in Word,
saved as a .docx then uploaded it and downloaded the le I needed
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Thank you so much! 1st Method works hehe
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The lack of knowledge in this thread
is amazing.
Gadgets Method 1: When you paste a link into your browser,
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it doesn’t matter what page you’re currently on, or if you uploaded or anything, it’s a new web
request to download. So if the document is free to begin with, it will download. If it’s not free, it won’t
download.
Nothing magical or “hackish” about it.
Jim
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28726)
10. 11. 2018 Method 1 still works 🙂
Emre
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Yes, still working and it’s the easiest method. 🙂

Thanks Jamie.
REPLY SC
October 18, 2018 at 4:30 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-
26350)
Method 1 worked as of 18 Oct 2018. Thanks for the tip. Not sure why this is not publicised on Scribd
itself at the point of download
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as of 2018-10-01 methode #1 still works, thankyouMAC

for sharing !
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Method 1 works for textbooks. They rearranged the format so now the upload link is at the bottom.
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IT WORKS! Method 1 Works! Thanks!
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Hey, I found an easier way to do that.

Subscribe to scribd then go to the document you want to download.
Instead of clicking the blue download button, click on the print button which is just above (next to
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😐 thanks… been struggling for like 20 minutes…

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Thanks . method 1 worked as on 5th sep 2018
REPLY Pasta
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Thank you! Idk why the rst method even works but who cares, you’re an angel.
REPLY JR
Thank you! Method 1 worked for me. (as of July 25, 2018) I uploaded a document to download a
document. “Eye for an eye” i guess?
Anon
Method 1 works in Firefox as of July 18th 2018
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METHOD ONE: UPLOADING DOCUMENTS

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REPLY Matheus Justino

#1 worked! Thanks a lot! <3

REPLY Alex (https://www.techjunkie.com)

Method 1 (upload any document) working May 2019. Thanks.

Thanks dude! It works perfectly! May 2019

Yes…. It’s work for me April 2019

Thanks, works on april 2019 :))

method 1 is still working..its great

Method 1 still works on 19, Feb 2019. Thank you !

REPLY Bob Loblaw

Thank you so much! 1st Method works hehe

AS OF NOV 27, 2018  MAC (https://www.techjunkie.com/category/mac/)

Nothing magical or “hackish” about it.

November 10, 2018 at 6:31 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-free/#comment-

10. 11. 2018 Method 1 still works 🙂

Yes, still working and it’s the easiest method. 🙂

as of 2018-10-01 methode #1 still works, thankyouMAC

IT WORKS! Method 1 Works! Thanks!

September 10, 2018 at 6:52 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-

Hey, I found an easier way to do that.

October 25, 2018 at 10:39 am (https://www.techjunkie.com/download-scribd-document-

😐 thanks… been struggling for like 20 minutes…

Thanks . method 1 worked as on 5th sep 2018

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Method 1 works in Firefox as of July 18th 2018

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