scribd (everand) → PDF downloader

Download eBooks you have access to on Everand (formerly Scribd) as clean, text‑selectable PDFs for personal, offline use.

Only Everand eBooks are supported (not Documents or audiobooks). Use only with your own Everand account, for personal use, and respect Everand's Terms of Service.

How it works

Everand's reader is a paginated, Cloudflare‑protected EPUB viewer, so the tool:

1. Opens the book in your real Google Chrome (Playwright channel="chrome") with a persistent profile — you log in once and pass Cloudflare like a normal browser.
2. Walks the reader one screen at a time, capturing each page's positioned HTML. Pages are keyed by content hash (each tall column holds several print pages), so nothing is skipped or duplicated.
3. Embeds the book's fonts and renders every page to a vector PDF, cropped to a clean, uniform book‑page layout, then merges them into one file.

Code layout: run.py (orchestrator) · everand_capture.py (phase 1: navigate + capture) · everand_render.py (phase 2: render + crop to PDF).

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m playwright install chromium

Requirements: Python 3.9+, and Google Chrome installed (the tool drives real Chrome, not the bundled Chromium).

Usage (single book)

python run.py "<everand_book_url>"

Example:

python run.py "https://www.everand.com/read/813249861/Sleep-Change-the-way-you-sleep-with-this-90-minute-read"

1. On the first run a Chrome window opens — log in to Everand and solve any captcha. Your login is saved in ./chrome-profile/, so later runs are automatic.
2. To switch accounts, delete the chrome-profile/ folder and run again.
3. The finished <book>.pdf is written next to the script.

Optional environment variables:

• EVERAND_MARGIN=48 — page margin (px) around the text block.
• EVERAND_MAX_PAGES=N — stop after N pages (quick test).

Batch mode (many books) — main.py

main.py reads a list of book URLs from a local MongoDB (bookUrlList.books) and runs run.py for each. To scrape book URLs, see the companion project everand-book-url-scraper. Batch mode is optional and not needed for single‑book downloads.

Notes

• You can only download books your account has access to.
• If Everand changes its reader again, the DOM selectors in everand_capture.py may need updating.