Translator for Scribd documents

[tjowens]

Scribd.com has a lot of content, they also allow individuals to embed documents in their own pages. Ideally a Scribd translator would work on any page that had one of their embedded documents.

Here is an example of a paper on Scribd.
​http://www.scribd.com/doc/8913313/KI-Min-Invasive-Surgery-08-ExecSum

If it has the necessary calls the Scribd API is probably the best way to go. See ​http://www.scribd.com/publisher/api

Initial request see ​http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5077/

[rmzelle]

I'm not sure the API can be used. The ability to retrieve metadata seems limited to those documents that the registered user has uploaded him/herself:

​http://www.scribd.com/developers/api?method_name=docs.getSettings

"doc_id (required) ID for the document. The current user must have uploaded this document, or will cause an access denied error."

[ajlyon]

I'm having trouble finding any useful metadata on these pages. We could still write a translator, but I don't see what we could get, apart from the user who uploaded the file, its name, and hopefully a local copy of the file.

If that's all we're looking for, then this would probably be pretty easy, but also not very valuable.