This scrapper can scrape through Chegg.com and create an html file to save the content locally. The repository can be used in Chegg-Scraping Bots or for downloading the webpage.
First, download the latest release from here
After unzipping, install the requirements by using
pip install -r requirements.txt
or
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
whatever works depending on your System
The above step is a one time process, once done move onto the next step.
Now in order to run the file, use-
python Downloader.py
There are 2 optional arguments
--url or -u --> To enter the page url
--cookie or -c --> To enter the cookies file path
Cookies are supported in cookie.txt format.
Copy the cookie from document.cookies from the Browser console or you may use a browser extension like EditThisCookie
Once the cookie file is made, You need to add the cookie file in the project folder to save yourself from the -c argument or use -c argument to provide cookie path to the downloader before each run.
python Downloader.py -c path/to/the/cookie/file.txt -u "https://chegg.com/using-chegg-scraper"
If the cookie is saved as cookie.txt or cookie.json in the project folder you can run the following as:
python Downloader.py -u "https://chegg.com/using-chegg-scraper"
For Help, use:
python Downloader.py -h