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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, Huffington 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
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.
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pay for the research and other documents provided on the website.
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Our first method for downloading Scribd documents on the web relies on uploading a document of your own to a Scribd account 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 (https://www.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 using the search bar and click on it when it appears in the results.
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On the next page, you’ll want to click the Download option on the left side of your display.
This will redirect you to a page designed to help you set up your Scribd subscription, complete with a 30-day free trial. Doing this
requires entering payment information, however, which we want to avoid. So instead, scroll down until you see Start Uploading near
the bottom of this page.
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Click this text and then the Upload button on the popup that appears. This allows you to upload a document in exchange for another
document on Scribd for free. Unless you have a document of value you’d like to contribute to the site, you can create any kind of
document you want. 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. Alternatively, 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
(http://generator.lorem-ipsum.info/) if you’re having trouble figuring out what to write. Just make sure that it has at least a page or two
of text or Scribd won’t accept it as an upload. After you’ve created this document, go back to the Scribd webpage and click Select
Documents To Upload. When your document is uploaded, provide a title for the new file and hit Submit.
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A new popup will appear at the top of the screen offering to let you download the original document you wanted to download for free.
Just choose your file format (PDF or TXT) and press Download. You should see your downloaded file in your Downloads folder in just a
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Start by navigating Firefox (we can’t suggest using Chrome, as Chrome generates a .swf file that never manages 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 fiction, we
recommend only using this for nonfiction 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 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 that appears as
‘key-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’. Now head back to the original document page in your browser and look at the URL at 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=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 few
minutes for the page to load as your documents begin 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.
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Method 1 might work for documents, but can’t get sheet music anymore. Preview thumbnails show as a large treble clef, and anything linked to something
that looks like that cannot be downloaded. Instead, when clicking or pasting in that URL you are served up a preview of completely unrelated content. Doesn’t
matter how many times you log in/out, or how documents you upload. They’ve blocked it. None of the other methods work.
Method one works for the first time. However, on the second time, they asked you 5 documents to upload, not only one.
it’s June 2020 and the method one worked for me (I LOVE YOU PEOPLE, SUCH BIG HELP). The method two however, I tried to look for the access key from the
source but zero searches.
15.6.2020 Method 1 is still working so far. I’m using Microsoft Edge. Hope that helps
nice method one still working perfectly! i found this article very helpful thank you!
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Hey, how could you replace the link? For me it’s not possible. Thanks!
Hi there…
Method 1 worked for me. I am using Microsoft’s edge browser (if you find that relevant).
method one worked for me! thanks for saving me from buying an 800$ textbook!
28th Aug 2019: Method 1 no longer works as there is no Download link anymore, only a link to sign up for the trial.
Method 1 still works, August 3rd 2019 (Downloaded Charisma on Command by Charlie Houpert). Fun fact: I actually uploaded something useful instead of
garbage. Method 2 on FireFox gave me the same .swf file as on Chrome.
I use to get Method 1 to work… now I can not. It does not give me a “download” option anymore before I upload… Just 30 day trial button
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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
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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!
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Method 3 worked partially, had to download GreaseFork unblurring add-ons to GreaseMonkey to make it work (tried different ones, some didn’t work)
I have a subscription to scribd. I have also 5 Greaseonkey downloaders. How do I actually save a document to my PC? (and not as a swf.)
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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 file I
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