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alexferrari88 / sbstck-dl

CLI tool for downloading Substack newsletters for archival purposes, offline reading, or data analysis.
MIT License
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Ability to download paid posts too #1

Closed iliasjaddi closed 1 year ago

iliasjaddi commented 1 year ago

Hi, Is there any possibility to include the option to download posts behind a pay-wall? Let me explain myself, I have paid for access to a private substack and I would like to download the posts for offline use and would love if the program could authenticate itself using my account and then download all the posts just as it would do if they were public instead of private.

alexferrari88 commented 1 year ago

hi, this is in the roadmap but unfortunately I have no way to develop this since I don't pay for any Substack newsletter so I won't be able to test it. I'd be happy to accept any PR implementing this (granting it's a valid one)

iliasjaddi commented 1 year ago

Hi Alex, Thanks for the reply but I solved it by building a new app that uses Puppetter to use the user's browser in order to download all posts from a paid Substack newsletter. It does not work as smooth as yours as it shows the browser doing all the dirty work but it completed the goal so I am happy download-paid-substacks