sendeky / mghtextbookscraper

A McGrawHill (MGH) Textbook Scraper that is made in python.

MGHTextbookScraper

A McGrawHill (MGH) Textbook Scraper that is made in python.

Requirements:

• Python (Tested on 3.9, should work on anything recent)
• McGrawHill Cookies

Getting Started:

Clone project

user@User-Machine~$ git clone https://github.com/Sendeky/MGHTextbookScraper
user@User-Machine~$ cd MGHTextbookScraper

Install requirements

user@User-Machine~$ pip install requirements.txt

Getting cookies from McGrawHill:

• Navigate and open your textbook
• Open your browser's Web Inspector (Ctrl+Shift+I for Chrome and most browsers)
• Find a link that starts with "epub-factory-cdn.mheducation.com" (Ctrl+F to open find menu)
• Open the link
  
  

There are 3 cookies that are necessary for this to work

• Click on the Cookies Tab of the Web Inspector
• Get 3 Cookies:
  *CloudFront-Policy
  *CloudFront-Signature
  *CloudFront-Key-Pair-Id

Congrats! Now put all 3 cookies into the cookies.txt file

Running the Scraper:

It's super simple! Just run the main file like this

user@User-Machine~$ python TextbookScraperProject.py

The retrieved text will be in the project folder in data.json