We discovered a way in the Scribd website that allows any user to view or download the 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 login to 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 subscription. 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, getting 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 UPLOAD METHOD
METHOD 2: DOWNLOAD SCRIBD DOCUMENTS USING WEB BROWSER
This is one of the easiest and 100% working (verified) method 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 PDF.
This is done through an extension or add-on called Tampermonkey. Through this extension, you can view and
download any Scribd document or PDF files 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 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 without 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 PDF file. The extension generated two PDF files, 100 pages each.
And these 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, such 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 which are blurred. And to download the document, you can use the Screenshot
extension discussed in 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