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[lorenzodifuccia]

Can someone please provide a complete and up-to-date guide on exporting cookies from a browser session and using them with safaribooks?

Thank you. Love ❤️

[vbargl]

Just bump into this repo like half an hour ago and was able to download some books.
I used js code below from this fork: https://github.com/mauriciospinelli/safaribooks-oreillybooks

console.log(JSON.stringify(document.cookie.split(';').map(c => c.split('=')).map(i => [i[0].trim(), i[1].trim()]).reduce((r, i) => {r[i[0]] = i[1]; return r;}, {})))

[dotemacs]

To make it even more straightforward, for those who are on autopilot and just want to get their book:

1. Log into O'Reilly
2. Browse to the book you're interested in
3. From the URL of the book, extract the book ID, that looks something like: 9781491958698
4. Open the developer console in your browser and run the above JavaScript in the console tab:

console.log(JSON.stringify(document.cookie.split(';').map(c => c.split('=')).map(i => [i[0].trim(), i[1].trim()]).reduce((r, i) => {r[i[0]] = i[1]; return r;}, {})))

5. Extract the above output and save it into cookies.json
6. Then clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/lorenzodifuccia/safaribooks.git
7. cd safaribooks
8. Install the relevant dependencies of the project: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
9. copy/move cookies.json file into the same directory
10. run python3 safaribooks.py 9781491958698

To make the book look good:

1. Install Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/, in order to get the executable ebook-convert
2. run ebook-convert on the file saved in Books/the-title-of-your-book-ID/ID.epub e.g.

$ ebook-convert "XXXX/safaribooks/Books/Test-Driven Development with Python 2nd Edition (9781491958698)/9781491958698.epub" "XXXX/safaribooks/Books/Test-Driven Development with Python 2nd Edition (9781491958698)/9781491958698_CLEAR.epub"

The first argument is the path to the downloaded ePub, the second is the name you'd like to give to your book. Maybe give it the same name as the title e.g. Test-Driven Development with Python 2nd Edition.epub.
3. install the generated ePub on your desired device/reader

[dotemacs]

@dotemacs does this method still work?

@roon83 yes it does.

Just to be clear, I'm not doing anything wild. I'm just following the steps from the above.

If it doesn't work for you, maybe you're getting some sort of error.
In that case, paste the error and somebody might be able to help you.

For example, I kept getting this error:

Unhandled Exception: Expecting value: line 1 column 2 (char 1) (type: JSONDecodeError)

But it was only because I managed to mistype the cookie into the file.

Good luck