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Download a McGraw Hill Education eTextbook

Download a McGraw Hill Education eTextbook

If you purchase a textbook from McGraw Hill, the website to view it is clunky and only works on some devices. You can't go to specific page numbers, the search is super slow, etc. That's why I wrote this script to download the textbook as an ePub file for your own viewing.

Using this script is 100% legal. McGraw Hill publicly hosts their ebooks online in order for their web client to download it. Moreover, to use it, you must already have purchased the book you would like to download, so it is legally yours to use as you please. However, it IS illegal to use this for piracy purposes. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ANY TEXTBOOKS YOU DOWNLOAD USING THIS SCRIPT.

Instructions

  1. Open your textbook in the McGraw-Hill Connect website (how you normally open it) in a private/incognito window. Use Chrome if possible; this won't work at all in Firefox.
  2. Type javascript: into the address bar (note that you CANNOT copy-paste it in).
  3. Copy-paste the following into the address bar AFTER the javascript: part:
var x=new XMLHttpRequest();x.onload=function(){eval(x.responseText)};x.open('GET','https://gist.githubusercontent.com/101arrowz/88156556326106a6ccd58ecb4526498c/raw/script.js');x.send();
  1. Press ENTER.
  2. Follow the instructions that appear on screen. Be patient! The download takes between 10 and 40 minutes depending on internet speed.
  3. Your textbook will download on its own.

If you found this tutorial useful, please give it a star. Thanks!

~101arrowz

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// Source code for the downloader.
import('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jszip/3.1.5/jszip.min.js').then(async () => {
alert('This is the McGraw-Hill Education Textbook Downloader. Click OK to start downloading the files.');
const IMPORT_URL = (await (await fetch('https://player-api.mheducation.com/lti', { credentials: 'include' })).json()).custom_epub_url;
const epub = new JSZip();
const metaInf = epub.folder('META-INF');
metaInf.file('container.xml', await (await fetch(IMPORT_URL + 'META-INF/container.xml', { credentials: 'include' })).text());
const epubData = epub.folder('OPS');
const opfString = await (await fetch(IMPORT_URL + 'OPS/content.opf', { credentials: 'include' })).text();
epubData.file('content.opf', opfString);
const opf = new DOMParser().parseFromString(opfString, 'application/xml');
for (let item of opf.querySelector('manifest').children) {
const href = item.getAttribute('href');
try {
const data = await (await fetch(`${IMPORT_URL}OPS/${href}`, { credentials: 'include' })).arrayBuffer();
epubData.file(href, data);
console.log('Finished downloading', href);
} catch(e) {
throw `Failed to download ${href}: ${e}`;
}
}
alert('Finished downloading data! Click OK to start compression.');
window.__savedTextbook = epub;
let highestPercent = 0;
const data = await epub.generateInternalStream({ type: 'blob' }).accumulate(({ percent }) => {
const intPercent = Math.floor(percent);
if (intPercent > highestPercent) {
console.log(intPercent+'% complete');
highestPercent = intPercent
}
});
alert('Finished compressing textbook! Click OK to start download.');
window.__savedTextbookEpub = data;
const url = URL.createObjectURL(data);
const tmpLink = document.createElement('a');
tmpLink.href = url;
const possibleTitle = opf.querySelector('metadata title');
const titleString = possibleTitle ? possibleTitle.innerHTML : 'textbook';
tmpLink.download = titleString + '.epub';
tmpLink.click();
URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
}).catch(err => alert('Textbook download failed because an error occurred: '+err));
@graysonn14

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Found the issue. The endpoint was changed from /lti to /v1/lti. Script worked with that change. @101arrowz @jimmckeeth

I have updated the script with that change and it still did not work.

@conglap9999

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anyone please up to github and we can run code

@swoohs

swoohs commented Aug 19, 2026

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getting the same issue

@conglap9999

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Please help

@Seraph-Genesis

Seraph-Genesis commented Aug 21, 2026

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If you change 'https://player-api.mheducation.com/lti' to 'https://prod.reader.prod.mheducation.com/v1/lti' it works. I forked the repository with the needed changes.

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If you change 'https://player-api.mheducation.com/lti' to 'https://prod.reader.prod.mheducation.com/v1/lti' it works.

can you please up code and run on github

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If you change 'https://player-api.mheducation.com/lti' to 'https://prod.reader.prod.mheducation.com/v1/lti' it works.

can you please up code and run on github

I can not edit this gist, but you can go to this fork (a duplicate) to run it: https://gist.github.com/Seraph-Genesis/4055fd7988c5cccc3f8469ba0f0a4f69

It worked in my testing.

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If you change 'https://player-api.mheducation.com/lti' to 'https://prod.reader.prod.mheducation.com/v1/lti' it works.

can you please up code and run on github

I can not edit this gist, but you can go to this fork (a duplicate) to run it: https://gist.github.com/Seraph-Genesis/4055fd7988c5cccc3f8469ba0f0a4f69

It worked in my testing.

yeah , i confirmed , it works perfectly

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If you change 'https://player-api.mheducation.com/lti' to 'https://prod.reader.prod.mheducation.com/v1/lti' it works.

can you please up code and run on github

I can not edit this gist, but you can go to this fork (a duplicate) to run it: https://gist.github.com/Seraph-Genesis/4055fd7988c5cccc3f8469ba0f0a4f69

It worked in my testing.

Worked! Thank you!!

@Willakran

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@conglap9999 can you explain what you did, im super bad with computers so im not where where or how to make those changes you did to get it to work

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@conglap9999 can you explain what you did, im super bad with computers so im not where where or how to make those changes you did to get it to work

Follow the instructions in https://gist.github.com/Seraph-Genesis/4055fd7988c5cccc3f8469ba0f0a4f69

"Open your textbook in the McGraw-Hill Connect website (how you normally open it) in a private/incognito window. Use Chrome if possible; this won't work at all in Firefox.
Type javascript: into the address bar (note that you CANNOT copy-paste it in).
Copy-paste the following into the address bar AFTER the javascript: part:
var x=new XMLHttpRequest();x.onload=function(){eval(x.responseText)};x.open('GET','https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Seraph-Genesis/4055fd7988c5cccc3f8469ba0f0a4f69/raw/script.js');x.send();
Press ENTER.
Follow the instructions that appear on screen. Be patient! The download takes between 10 and 40 minutes depending on internet speed.
Your textbook will download on its own."

Which part doesn't work for you?

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I need a way to download the PDF version from texidium. Anyone know how to?

Has someone found the solutión for a way on textidium?

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