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Downloading PDFs from ISSUU

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I am trying to download publication from ISSUU, directly as PDF.

So for example take this URL:

https://issuu.com/vaistinecamelia/docs/camelia_2018_spalis_elvariantas_kre

Any ideas how I could access it?

There is 3rd party services, that do it, like so: http://issuu.pdf-downloader.com/, so I presume it must be possible somehow

However I want to do it directly Any ideas?

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galdikas Avatar asked Oct 04 '18 10:10

galdikas


1 Answers

So I did not find a way directly download PDF, but there is a way around it.

So basically each publication has a twiter meta tag:

<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://image.isu.pub/180721061958-e8f19464b7540f48371102c2b71136b4/jpg/page_1.jpg">

So you can access each and every page by looping through URLs, until you get no valid image, by changing the end (page_1.jpg, page_2.jpg and so on).

Once you have all the images, it is easy to convert them to PDF, if that is what you need.

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galdikas Avatar answered Nov 06 '22 19:11

galdikas