I’ve got legal, authorized access to cengage’s ebook platform. HOWEVER: their built-in ereader is absolute CRUD. Does anyone have a tool that can create an epub or pdf from a given cengage book?

I’ve already checked libgen, anna, ebsco, and the online databases. the book isnt already on there, so once I rip it, it’ll get uploaded by me.

  • bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    I haven’t used that e reader in 3-4 years, but I remember using ublock to kill some of the scripts they had to allow me to copy/paste into my notesheet and stuff like that. It also made it slightly less shit to read

    I’m not really able to help out right now beyond what I said, but fuck cengage, their books were such a pain to read. Fuck paying 120$ to rent that sack of shit for 90 days.

    Good luck with this.

      • grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        1 month ago

        I CANT FUCKING GET THIS FILE STUFF TO WORK

        IT FINDS THE ELEMENTS JUST FINE

        BUT CANT FUCKING SAVE IT

        (also hi from migrated account, i’m on dbzer0 now \o/)

          • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            1 month ago

            I don’t have a cengage account, so I can’t actually do do anything with the Python and test it, and I’m obviously unaware of the http responses you get from the site or how any of it works.

            Two things jumped out at me while glancing through the script though. First, you close the login tab, then when you try to parse the html content from the ebook tab you reference tab [1]. I usually use the requests library bc I’m posting payloads and stuff so I rarely use selenium, and I’ve never fucked with tabs, but with the first tab closed won’t the ebook tab be first in the index, so [0]? Second, look up how to set a proxy for selenium, download the community edition of burp suite, then proxy all your traffic in the script through burp. You’ll then be able to see all your http requests and all the http responses from the server, which will probably help you debug much more effectively.

            Edit - if you even care anymore haha.