chegg-scraper's Introduction

NOTE

The Original Developers are no longer in a position to maintain this project. But we would still like to keep the project alive, thus any open source contribution from the community is more than welcome.

Chegg-Scrapper

Download Chegg homework-help questions to html files, these html files are self sufficient, you don't need account access to load them

Details

All files are saved to html document.

You will not need your chegg account to open these files later.

USE-CASES

In Bots
You can share your chegg subscription with your friends, eg: by making discord bot
Saving Chegg Questions Locally

Setup:

Download latest release
Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
Save your cookie in file cookie.txt (preferably)
Using Browser Console
- Log-in to chegg in your browser and open up the developer console. (cmd-shift-c or ctrl-shift-i)
- Grab your cookies by typing
- paste yout cookie from console into cookie.txt (without ")
Or
Using Chrome Extenstion
- Log-in to chegg in your web browser
- Open Extension (Example) EditThisCookie
- Click Export and paste in cookie.txt
You may also need to change user-agent
- Open conf.json and edit user_agent
  - Find your browser user agent
    - Open What's My User Agent
      
      Or
    - Open Browser console and run
      
      console.log(navigator.userAgent)

Usage:

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Run the Downloader.py Script

$ python Downloader.py

Enter url of the homework-help:

Arguments

ALL ARGUMENTS ARE OPTIONAL
-u or --url      >   URL of Chegg
-c or --cookie   >   Path of Cookie file (Defualt: cookie.txt)
-s or --save     >   file path, where you want to save, put inside " "

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