Scribd Scraper | Documents, Authors and Views
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Scribd scraper for public documents: search by keyword, Scribd link or document ID and get 100 documents in 34 seconds, 29 fields each. Title, author and profile, pages, word count, views, rating and votes, upload date, real language, license, file formats and table of contents. No login needed.
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