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Blinkist "Today's Free Blink" text scraper

This script combines the chapter texts into one text.

Skaber
scr1ptst3r
Daglige installationer
0
Installationer i alt
60
Bedømmelser
1 0 0
Version
0.9.2
Oprettet
05.06.2022
Opdateret
05.07.2022
Licens
MIT
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This script only works on the "Today's Free Blink" page after you have clicked on the button "Start now".
The text scraping starts automatically when this script is active and skips through the chapters from the first to the last segment automatically.

Important: You need to start at the first segment (e.g. "Introduction") for this script to work/to scrape the complete text.

In the last segment a popup window with the combined text of all chapters will open.
The combined text can also be found in the console at the last segment page.

Links to the audio files of the segments are listed in the top right corner of the page.
The audio file links disappear again after 15 minutes because Blinkist lets these links expire after this time period.
When you click on an audio file link after this time, you would only see a note from the Blinkist website telling you that the audio file link has expired.
To generate new working links, just reload the website to let the script run again.

A link to download the combined text as a txt file is also shown below the audio file links at the last chapter page.

Tested with the current versions of the desktop browsers of Chrome and Firefox.

Warning: When you trigger too many page reloads you might see a Blinkist page with the warning: "Too Many Requests. Please try again later."
In this case clear the website cache/cookies and the page should load again.

Blinkist is great. Please support them.
Please just use this to archive the text for personal use.