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Hey all,

I’m looking to grab the audio files from Blinkist (I have an annual subscription if that matters) because I want to be able to listen to them at a slightly faster speed and their in app player doesn’t allow this.

Is there a way to either rip these from the site using a scraper - the Blinkist-m4a-downloader on GitHub doesn’t work anymore - or I guess automate a process to save the books in app, download them - audio files are streamed but you can save and download for offline playback within the app - and three somehow pull them off my phone storage?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just implemented it in audiobook-dl. Hope it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh nice one, I’ll take a better look at it when I get him. how does it work exactly? Will I need to manually point it at the book url?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah. Specify the books by url. Just run audiobook-dl [url] after installing. It supports downloading multiple books with a single command.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool. I’ll give it a test. You wouldn’t know away to scrape all the book urls would you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not right now, but I will see if I can figure something out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hm i would be interested in that too. You never know how the prices will increase for such services.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I managed to get a 90% off code which is why I bought the year subscription. If all the other service I used to use are anything to go by, prices will increase. Would be nice to have the audio on my iPod for when I want to leave my phone somewhere