Downloader Won't Even Install

[Anarchy221]

When I Try The Install Command It Shows This In Red...

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement scribd-downloader (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for scribd-downloader

[theothersophie]

i worked around this by installing the development version (download the repository, run shell in it and python setup.py install). You also have to get GTK+ libraries to make it work. Similar to the step 4 here

https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install.html#step-4-install-the-gtk-libraries

[Anarchy221]

i worked around this by installing the development version (download the repository, run shell in it and python setup.py install). You also have to get GTK+ libraries to make it work. Similar to the step 4 here

https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install.html#step-4-install-the-gtk-libraries

@theothersophie Oh, Thanks a Lot Mate...

Btw, Do I Need To Install Weasyprint Also ? or Just The GTK+ Libraries ?

[theothersophie]

Just the GTK+ libraries, WeasyPrint is irrelevant. Did you get it working?

[Anarchy221]

Aah, Installed It, But Haven't Tried Downloading Though...

[Anarchy221]

@theothersophie , Still The Same Problem... Even The Development Version Won't Install... Shows That Same Red Message... This Is So Annoying...

[Anarchy221]

@theothersophie, Any Other Way To Install This ?

[theothersophie]

What's the exact error message you get? You're trying to install it using py setup.py install?

[Anarchy221]

@theothersophie, This Is What I Get...

[theothersophie]

you're in the wrong directory. You have to cd into scribd-downloader-master. You don't need -m pip either because you're not trying to install a package from the web.

[Anarchy221]

OKay, I Don't Understand What I'm Doing Wrong...

Nothing is Happening...
I'll Probably Give Up... This Is So Frustrating...
Sorry For Wasting Your Time, And Thanks a Lot For Trying To Help... I'm Just Too Stupid... 😭

[theothersophie]

you used py before, so try py setup.py install, the python command can vary from system to system depending on your setup.

[Anarchy221]

@theothersophie, Same... Nothing Happens...

[Codeandbehappy]

Hi, I followed your steps: succesfully installed dev version and GTK+ installer from latest sourceforge. Then I begun to get all sorts of library dependency warnings (too many to quote here) so I installed the missing libraries each time it asked for one. WeasyInstaller is required per one of the errors. But then I got

OSError: no library called "cairo" was found
no library called "libcairo-2" was found
cannot load library 'libcairo.so': error 0x7e
cannot load library 'libcairo.2.dylib': error 0x7e
cannot load library 'libcairo-2.dll': error 0x7e

at which point I gave up, running pip install on those two does nothing.

[nokeechia]

@Testedbytime
You need to download the GTK+ dependencies to get the libcairo-2 dependencies.
After you install this, I used MSYS2 you will havee to use pacman to install libcairo2.

Please read https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install.html#step-4-install-the-gtk-libraries

[Anarchy221]

Yeah, Too Many Things To Install... This Is Seriously Painful...

[megargayu]

On windows I managed to do it like this:

1. Download the development version (download ZIP or clone using git) and navigate to that directory in cmd.
2. Run python setup.py install in the directory
3. Install this (download the latest release's exe files and run both of them)
4. It should work!

[pakhi001]

On windows I managed to do it like this:

1. Download the development version (download ZIP or clone using `git`) and navigate to that directory in `cmd`.

2. Run `python setup.py install` in the directory

3. Install [this](https://github.com/tschoonj/GTK-for-Windows-Runtime-Environment-Installer/releases) (download the latest release's exe files and run both of them)

4. It should work!

Hey! Using the first two steps i was able to install, but it still shows "scribd" is not recognized as a command. What can I do?

[pakhi001]

Just the GTK+ libraries, WeasyPrint is irrelevant. Did you get it working?

I installed the development version but it still displays that scribdl is not recognized. Any idea what could be wrong?

[megargayu]

Hey! Using the first two steps i was able to install, but it still shows "scribd" is not recognized as a command. What can I do?

Well... the program runs when you type the command scribdl, not scribd - try that instead.

[pakhi001]

Hey! Using the first two steps i was able to install, but it still shows "scribd" is not recognized as a command. What can I do?

Well... the program runs when you type the command scribdl, not scribd - try that instead.

Yes, thanks, I identified that mistake and got it running, but it still wont download books or audiobooks, though it is now working perfectly for documents. I tried using the -c and passing my credentials in a txt file, but it was showing error that way, whereas when I put in my scribd session and scribd expire in the const.py, there was no error but it simply displayed a message "Extracting to Listen_to_title.txt" and then nothing happened. So, if you could help me out with this, I would be very grateful

[megargayu]

Hey! Using the first two steps i was able to install, but it still shows "scribd" is not recognized as a command. What can I do?

Well... the program runs when you type the command scribdl, not scribd - try that instead.

Yes, thanks, I identified that mistake and got it running, but it still wont download books or audiobooks, though it is now working perfectly for documents. I tried using the -c and passing my credentials in a txt file, but it was showing error that way, whereas when I put in my scribd session and scribd expire in the const.py, there was no error but it simply displayed a message "Extracting to Listen_to_title.txt" and then nothing happened. So, if you could help me out with this, I would be very grateful

Well, I don't really know how this program works, and I don't have enough time to dive into it (also, I'm just too lazy). I would create a new issue or ask the contributors about your issue.

[KaKi87]

Hello,

Would it be possible to put this package back on the repository so that users wouldn't need building from source ?

Thanks

[yhw9102]

when i run >python setup.py install, there is error like this, please help

line 11, in
long_description = f.read()
^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa5 in position 88: illegal multibyte sequence

[Phoenix124]

Try to use latest python > 3.11, first start pip install scribd-downloader than python setup.py install

[3xploiton3]

Try to use latest python > 3.11, first start pip install scribd-downloader than python setup.py install

i follow your guide, then got this error,