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books from Scribd.

Everyone is aware of Scribd, the world’s

largest digital library of all kinds of written books as PDF mostly. Scribd consists of

nearly 40 million documents posted by its users. On Scribd, new and old authors

publish or sell their work, and readers can browse through the pages and find the

appropriate one for their needs.

It is essentially a paid service and hence

even if it lets you view a certain amount of documents for free, you can’t download

them unless you upgrade to a paid membership. With a small subscription fee,

Scribd readers can view and read all such documents and books from their favorite

platforms like Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

But with a free Scribd membership, you can

view only a limited number of documents in Scribd’s database.

In this blog post, you are going to learn how to download unlimited files from Scribd for

free. You don’t even have to create an account with Scribd to download most of

the documents with these simple tricks explained below.

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Method 1: By Scribd Uploading Method

Watch this Video Explaining the Upload

Method

Method 2: Download Scribd Documents using

a Web Browser

Method 3: Use Nice-Try Web Browser Extension/Add-On

Steps to Install Extension and Download

Scribd Documents

Method 4: Using Internet Explorer

Method 5: Using Command Prompt or

Terminal in Windows PC, Mac, and Linux Machines

Method 6: Get up to 2-Month Scribd Subscription for Free

Steps to get a 2-Month FREE Scribd

Subscription

Method 7. Using Scribd Downloader

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS’)

How do I Download Documents from Scribd for Free?

Can I Download Books from Scribd by

following these methods?

Is it possible to download any Scribd

Document or PDF file for free?

Can I Print Books from Scribd?

How to download documents from Scribd

without Scribd Downloader?

How to View and Print Blurred Scribd

Documents for free?

What's Your Reaction?

METHOD 1: BY SCRIBD UPLOADING

METHOD

We discovered a way in the Scribd website

that allows any user to view or download documents from Scribd for free. No need to

pay for the subscription. Follow these instructions below to download or view a

Scribd document file for free.

Step 1: Go to Scribd.com

Step 2: Search document or page you want to view or download without paying to

Scribd and copy the URL of that page

Step 3: Now log in to your Scribd account or simply sign up for a new account.

Alternatively, use the Facebook Login option

Step 4: After signing up, you will be asked for

a subscription if you are not a monthly subscriber. Just skip it and get back to your

account (important step)

Step 6: Now Upload any type of document.

For eg: create a new text document and

write anything on it and upload it.

Step 7: Give a title and enter a description of

the uploaded content (not required but if you want, you can) and save it to continue.

Step 8: Now paste the URL you copied in

Step 2 in the address bar for downloading that document

Step 9: You will see a download button, just click on it and your download will start. You

can notice here that the Scribd document, once not downloading, gets downloaded

easily

This is the easiest way that still works, most

of the time (check comments). All you need to do is create an account on Scribd to

upload a file and then download the desired document from the Scribd website for free.

WATCH THIS VIDEO EXPLAINING THE

UPLOAD METHOD

METHOD 2: DOWNLOAD SCRIBD

DOCUMENTS USING A WEB

BROWSER

This is one of the easiest and 100% working (verified) methods to download Scribd

documents for free as of April 15, 2020. This method converts your regular web browser

into the Scribd downloader app. You can view blurred Scribd documents and also

save them as PDFs.

This is done through an extension or add-on

called Tampermonkey. Through this extension, you can view and download any

Scribd document or PDF file for free.

You don’t even have to log in using your

Facebook account or Sign up for a new account or buy a paid membership. Neither

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you need to upload any document to Scribd.

It’s a simple, plain, and easiest way to get Scribd documents for free.

All you need is a web browser. It must be either one of these,

Google Chrome

Safari UC Browser

Opera Firefox

Prefer Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome web

browser.

STEPS TO CONVERT WEB BROWSER INTO

SCRIBD DOWNLOADER

Following are the steps to convert web

browsers into downloaders to download documents and PDFS from the Scribd

website.

Step 1: Download and install any supported

web browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux PC from the list.

Step 2: Open Firefox browser and go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/?

application=firefox

Step 3: Search and install

Tampermonkey add-on to your browser.

Step 4: After adding the Tampermonkey

add-on to the browser, click on the extension and choose “Create a new script…“

Step 5: Visit this link and copy the javascript code

Step 6: Paste the copied javascript code into Tampermonkey editor and press CTRL+S or

Command+S in Mac to save the script

Step 7: Now, go to Scribd and open any

document or PDF that you want to view or download from Scribd

Step 8: The blurred Scribd document will now be visible now. To download, press

CTRL+P or Command+P and choose ‘Save

as PDF‘

Alternatively, you can install this extension on

Chrome browser and take a screenshot of all unblurred Scribd document pages. After

taking the screenshot, you can download and save the file as a PDF document to view

later. The process is explained below.

HOW TO DOWNLOAD A 400 PAGES LONG

BLURRED DOCUMENT FROM SCRIBD USING

WEB BROWSER

This works! In my test, I opened

https://www.scribd.com/document/267520124/QRG-ME-pdf document. It’s blurred if you view it

without a Tampermonkey setup.

After Tampermonkey setup, I was able to

view the entire 400-page blurred PDF document on Scribd. Then I used the

screenshot extension and it took 5 minutes to complete screenshots.

Once done I downloaded the document in a

PDF file. The extension generated two PDF files, 100 pages each.

And this 200-page PDF contains all 400

pages of the document, which can be read, and shared.

NOTE: This will take time to save if the document is long, as in my case. So wait if

you feel the browser is stuck. It’s not. It’s just taking time to process such a large

document.

METHOD 3: USE NICE-TRY WEB

BROWSER EXTENSION/ADD-ON

This is a new method added to this list today

as of April 15, 2020. And it works 100%. You can follow these steps to view Scribd documents

that are blurred. And to download the document, you can use the Screenshot

extension discussed in the above method and download the document as PDF.

STEPS TO INSTALL EXTENSION AND

DOWNLOAD SCRIBD DOCUMENTS

In Google Chrome,

Type chrome://extensions

Then turn on the Developer Mode toggle switch at the top-right

Download Nice-Try Chrome Extension and extract it

Click on the Load Unpacked Extension… button and choose the

extracted folder Now go to the Scribd document

page to view and download it

In Mozilla Firefox

Download this Add-on and Load it

via about:debugging as temporary Add-on

Choose the manifest.json file in the extracted folder

Opera

Download this extension for Opera

Open opera:extensions and enable the Developer Mode

Then load the extension as unpacked from the extension’s

extracted folder

METHOD 4: USING INTERNET

EXPLORER

This requires Internet Explorer.

Step 1: Go to Scribd.com, search for the document you want and open it

Step 2: Right-click anywhere on the page

and click the view page source

Step 3: Search for access_key, once you

find it copy it to someplace. See the image above for an example of what the key looks

like

Step 4: Get the document id of the documents that you want to free download

from Scribd. Refer the image below for an example of what the document ID looks like

Step 5: Replace access_key and document

id in this URL

And paste the modified URL into a new

browser window

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http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer document_id=108992419&access_key=key-13davbcdewnewn9m5w02

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Step 6: Let the document load. Once it is completely loaded, click on the print button

and then save as pdf Step 7: That’s it! The document will be downloaded as a pdf

document file to your computer.

There are a few more free methods

explained below that you can follow to download documents from Scribd without

paying a single penny. money.

METHOD 5: USING COMMAND

PROMPT OR TERMINAL IN WINDOWS

PC, MAC, AND LINUX MACHINES

This is a bit tricky method but if you follow

our instructions, you will find it easy. However, please note that this method may get

deprecated with time since Scribd updates its websites and patches vulnerabilities

frequently.

So if this does not work, don’t worry, we have

a few other options discussed below.

Step 1. Download and install Python 3.5

Step 2. Open the command prompt and type the following command

Step 3. After setting the environment

variables, we need to check if python and

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set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Users\ravi.singh\AppData

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set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Users\ravi.singh\AppData

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pip are working.

Step 4. Open a new Command Prompt window and type in command prompt pip

and press Enter. If you see an output with commands, the pip is working

Step 5. Now type pip install Scribd-dl and press Enter. Let it install the python package

Step 6. Now go to Scribd and browse the

document you want to download. Copy the URL to the document and paste the following

command

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scribd-dl https://www.scribd.com/document/9040314 Media-Strategy

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Replace the URL with your document URL and press Enter. Wait for a while till it

downloads the file. Then browse the directory where cmd was running and

access the downloaded Scribd document.

METHOD 6: GET UP TO 2-MONTH

SCRIBD SUBSCRIPTION FOR FREE

The trial subscription entitles you to use the

Scribd platform as a paid member. After getting a free trial subscription, you can

download the required documents and up to 3 books in one month and listen to

unlimited audiobooks.

All you have to do is, sign up either on their

website or the Android /iOS app and start your free 30-day trial.

STEPS TO GET A 2-MONTH FREE SCRIBD

SUBSCRIPTION

We recently found that Scribd with Samsung

is giving a 2-month extended trial instead of just 1 month. That is insane! There’s no

other way currently to get a 2-month free Scribd trial. Samsung bears the cost for an

extra one-month subscription but you must own a Samsung Galaxy device.

If any of your friend or relative owns a

Samsung Galaxy device, take their help and get access to your favorite book, audiobook,

or documents in just a few taps.

Open Galaxy Apps on your Samsung Galaxy device

Search Scribd and install Scribd for the Samsung app

Sign in and start your 60-day free trial.

Access your favorite books and

documents for limitless reading completely FREE!

METHOD 7. USING SCRIBD

DOWNLOADER

If you reached here, it means either you have not tried any method yet or trying to

download a book which is impossible for now. Read more on How to download Books

from the Scribd post I recently posted.

One more possibility is that you are looking

for the easiest way to download the required document from the Scribd repository.

However, when you search for Scribd Downloader, you will rarely find a working

website. Scribd updates its websites with new lines of code occasionally after which

these downloader websites fail to download the Scribd documents via URL.

However, some sites like DLscrib.com—an amazing Scribd downloader web app—lets

you download required Scribd documents with just a few clicks. So go ahead and try

these downloaders. Also, let us know if that worked or which one worked for you.

Now that you know how to download documents and books from Scribd for free,

download whatever documents file or book you like.

If you face any problems following this tutorial, leave a comment below. We will help

you get the document. But don’t comment directly, without even trying any methods

discussed in this post.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

(FAQS’)

HOW DO I DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTS

FROM SCRIBD FOR FREE?

In this guide, we discussed 7 different

methods that can help you access, view,

and download documents from Scribd for

free.

CAN I DOWNLOAD BOOKS FROM

SCRIBD BY FOLLOWING THESE

METHODS?

Yes, you can download books from Scribd by

following Method 6. By getting a free subscription for up to 3 months, you can

download any book from Scribd for free.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO DOWNLOAD ANY

SCRIBD DOCUMENT OR PDF FILE FOR

FREE?

Yes, you can download any Scribd document for free. It doesn’t matter if the

document is 400 pages long. You can follow any of the 7 methods discussed in this guide

to download documents from Scribd.

CAN I PRINT BOOKS FROM SCRIBD?

Scribd does not provide an option to print

books. However, you can print books after downloading them to your PC. To download

Books for free, read our guide on How to download books from Scribd.

HOW TO DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTS

FROM SCRIBD WITHOUT SCRIBD

DOWNLOADER?

Scribd downloaders use a python script to download the documents from Scribd. You

can use the script on your Windows, Mac, or Linux PC to download any Scribd document

for free.

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HOW TO VIEW AND PRINT BLURRED

SCRIBD DOCUMENTS FOR FREE?

You can easily view any partially blurred document on Scribd and print it by using the

Tampermonkey extension and a custom script. The extension enables you to execute

the script on the Scribd document page which removes blur from the document.

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Ravi Singh An Avid learner, a Tech Enthusiast

and the founder of TechPosts Guides, Ravi is a Raspberry Pi fan

and an open-source lover. He spends most of his weekends working with IoT devices and playing

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