scribd-document

name	scribd-document
description	Download all pages from a Scribd document as images. Use when the user shares a scribd.com URL and wants to save, download, archive, or extract the pages/images of a Scribd document.

Download Scribd Document

Download all page images from a Scribd document via its embed view.

Browser — always gstack, never headless

Browser work goes through the gstack browser, which holds the user's logged-in sessions. A fresh Playwright instance is logged out: it silently returns login walls or truncated content that looks like a successful capture.

B="$HOME/.claude/skills/gstack/browse/dist/browse"
"$B" connect        # run from the target directory — another cwd spawns a second
                    # daemon and kills the headed session
"$B" goto "<url>"
"$B" js '<expression>'

Do NOT disconnect when done. browse disconnect tears down the daemon and the logged-in sessions with it. Leave it running — the daemon is a shared user resource, connect is safe to call again, and only whoever started it should close it.

Never launch a headless browser. Not headless=True, not --headless, not a fresh chromium.launch(). If gstack is unavailable, stop and say so rather than falling back — a logged-out capture is worse than no capture, because it looks fine.

Arguments

• $ARGUMENTS should contain: <url> [output_dir]

Instructions

Run the Scribd extractor script with a 10-minute timeout (large documents can take several minutes to scroll and download):

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/scribd_extractor.py $ARGUMENTS

IMPORTANT: When running this via the Bash tool, set timeout: 600000 (10 minutes).

If httpx or playwright are not installed, install them first:

pip3 install httpx playwright
python3 -m playwright install chromium

The script handles everything:

1. Converts the Scribd URL to its embed form (/embeds/{id}/content)
2. Drives the gstack browser (headed, via _browse.py) to the embed — never a headless instance, which would return a login wall for any gated document
3. Reads the toolbar to detect total page count
4. Scrolls through the document to trigger lazy loading of all pages
5. Runs targeted scrolling passes for any pages that didn't load
6. Downloads all page images as zero-padded .jpg files

Verification

After the script finishes:

1. Count the .jpg files in the output directory
2. Compare against the total page count reported by the script
3. Report any gaps to the user

Notes

• The script is idempotent — re-running skips already-downloaded pages
• Filenames are zero-padded (page_0001.jpg) for correct sort order
• Output directory defaults to ./scribd_output if not specified
• The script prints status to stderr and the output directory path to stdout

Example Usage

# Download with default output directory
/fetch:scribd-document https://www.scribd.com/document/123456789/Sample-Document-Title

# Download to a specific directory
/fetch:scribd-document https://www.scribd.com/document/123456789/Sample-Document-Title ./my-book