For any of you who likes the contents that Blinkist offers in their app or site, you can use a Python script to scrape all of the contents locally.
We all know might know that Blinkist's subscription fee is not cheap. Even if they offer a free trial period, some of us who don't have credit card will face trouble. Or, even if we have a free trial period, we might barely read all of the contents during this period.
To read all of the contents later, we can scrape and save them locally using a Python script:
[HIDEREPLY]
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Pre-requisites:
- Install the latest version of Google Chrome (and make sure to install it in the default location/don't change the installation location)
- If there's a problme with ChromeDriver later when following this tutorial, install ChromeDriver that matches with your Chrome's version here: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/.
Then put the .exe file into the same location as chrome.exe
- Don't close CMD after you're completely done
1. Install the latest version of Python.
Here's a handy tutorial videos to watch:
Windows 10:
Mac:
Linux:
2. Download the latest version of Blinkist Scraper
3. Extract the .zip files of the script to another folder and remember the folder's path, e.g.: C:\Users\HP\Blinkist
4. Open Command Prompt and type cd C:\Users\HP\Blinkist then Enter
Note: Change C:\Users\HP\Blinkist into the actual path
5. Once done, then type pip install -r requirements.txt and click Enter, then wait till all of the required modules installed.
6. After all modules installed, then type this command: python blinkistscraper email password
Email and password are the ones that you have right now. If you don't have a Blinkist account, you can get from this thread: https://babiato.co/threads/get-blinkist-premium-free-for-30-days.41452/ Thanks to @Deepansh
So you can use this command instead while the account still active: python blinkistscraper [email protected] Qwerty#115#
7. If there's an error, it's probably because some of the required modules are failed to install.
For example, if selenium is missing, you can go to this site: https://pypi.org/ and search for selenium. It should contains a line of command like this:
pip install selenium
Copy-paste then Enter in the CMD window. Keep doing this until all required modules installed, then retry step #6.
8. The script will open a Chrome with uBlock Origin extension active. Don't worry, it's just a default process from the script.
You'll need to pass the Blinkist's site captcha. If it's failed to load, try to deactivate uBlock Origin while the site loading or use a free VPN, then refresh the site. Or just keep waiting until you finally logged in and the scraper runs normally like the following screenshot: https://prnt.sc/110m0zt
9. The scraped books will be available in the books folder inside the script's folder (e.g. C:\Users\HP\Blinkist\books), categorized by each genre. There will be two formats: .html and .epub. For me, I prefer the .html format to read it on browser (just drag and drop the .html file to the browser). You can also save the .epub format to read on your Android/iOS device.
You can convert the scraped books into .pdf format, or you can also scrape the audiobooks. Read the documentation here: https://github.com/leoncvlt/blinkist-scraper
Script's copyright: leoncvlt on Github
Give ? if you find out that this thread is useful.
We all know might know that Blinkist's subscription fee is not cheap. Even if they offer a free trial period, some of us who don't have credit card will face trouble. Or, even if we have a free trial period, we might barely read all of the contents during this period.
To read all of the contents later, we can scrape and save them locally using a Python script:
[HIDEREPLY]
GitHub - leoncvlt/blinkist-scraper: ? Python tool to download book summaries and audio from Blinkist.com, and generate some pretty output
? Python tool to download book summaries and audio from Blinkist.com, and generate some pretty output - GitHub - leoncvlt/blinkist-scraper: ? Python tool to download book summaries and audio from B...
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- Install the latest version of Google Chrome (and make sure to install it in the default location/don't change the installation location)
- If there's a problme with ChromeDriver later when following this tutorial, install ChromeDriver that matches with your Chrome's version here: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/.
Then put the .exe file into the same location as chrome.exe
- Don't close CMD after you're completely done
1. Install the latest version of Python.
Here's a handy tutorial videos to watch:
Windows 10:
Mac:
Linux:
2. Download the latest version of Blinkist Scraper
3. Extract the .zip files of the script to another folder and remember the folder's path, e.g.: C:\Users\HP\Blinkist
4. Open Command Prompt and type cd C:\Users\HP\Blinkist then Enter
Note: Change C:\Users\HP\Blinkist into the actual path
5. Once done, then type pip install -r requirements.txt and click Enter, then wait till all of the required modules installed.
6. After all modules installed, then type this command: python blinkistscraper email password
Email and password are the ones that you have right now. If you don't have a Blinkist account, you can get from this thread: https://babiato.co/threads/get-blinkist-premium-free-for-30-days.41452/ Thanks to @Deepansh
So you can use this command instead while the account still active: python blinkistscraper [email protected] Qwerty#115#
7. If there's an error, it's probably because some of the required modules are failed to install.
For example, if selenium is missing, you can go to this site: https://pypi.org/ and search for selenium. It should contains a line of command like this:
pip install selenium
Copy-paste then Enter in the CMD window. Keep doing this until all required modules installed, then retry step #6.
8. The script will open a Chrome with uBlock Origin extension active. Don't worry, it's just a default process from the script.
You'll need to pass the Blinkist's site captcha. If it's failed to load, try to deactivate uBlock Origin while the site loading or use a free VPN, then refresh the site. Or just keep waiting until you finally logged in and the scraper runs normally like the following screenshot: https://prnt.sc/110m0zt
9. The scraped books will be available in the books folder inside the script's folder (e.g. C:\Users\HP\Blinkist\books), categorized by each genre. There will be two formats: .html and .epub. For me, I prefer the .html format to read it on browser (just drag and drop the .html file to the browser). You can also save the .epub format to read on your Android/iOS device.
You can convert the scraped books into .pdf format, or you can also scrape the audiobooks. Read the documentation here: https://github.com/leoncvlt/blinkist-scraper
Script's copyright: leoncvlt on Github
Give ? if you find out that this thread is useful.