📚 oreilly2pdf

Download any book from O'Reilly Learning as a single, high-quality PDF — perfect for offline reading.

All images, cross-chapter links, table of contents, and index entries just work — exactly as you'd expect from a real book.

⚠️ Requires an active O'Reilly Learning subscription.

⚡ Quick Start

pip install oreilly2pdf
oreilly2pdf 9781098150952 --cookie-file cookies.json

That's it. You'll get a 9781098150952.pdf with all chapters merged into one file.

🔧 Installation

From PyPI

pip install oreilly2pdf

From source

git clone https://github.com/cruzlorite/oreilly2pdf.git
cd oreilly2pdf
pip install .

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• Google Chrome (or Chromium)
• ChromeDriver — installed automatically by Selenium 4.20+

🍪 Getting Your Cookies

You need to provide your O'Reilly session cookies so the tool can access your account. There are three easy ways to get them:

Way 1 — DevTools Console (fastest)

1. Log in to learning.oreilly.com in Chrome.
2. Open DevTools (F12) → go to the Console tab.
3. Paste this and press Enter:

copy(JSON.stringify(Object.fromEntries(document.cookie.split('; ').map(c => c.split('=')))))

4. Your cookies are now in the clipboard. Save them to a file:

pbpaste > cookies.json   # macOS
xclip -o > cookies.json  # Linux

Way 2 — Cookie-Editor extension

1. Install Cookie-Editor in your browser.
2. Go to learning.oreilly.com and log in.
3. Click the Cookie-Editor icon → Export → JSON.
4. Paste into cookies.json and reformat as {"name": "value"} pairs.

Way 3 — Manual

1. Open DevTools (F12) → Application tab → Cookies → https://learning.oreilly.com.
2. Create a cookies.json with the relevant cookie values:

{
  "BrowserCookie": "...",
  "orm-jwt": "...",
  "orm-rt": "...",
  "groot_sessionid": "..."
}

Note: The most important cookies are typically orm-jwt and groot_sessionid. If export fails, try adding more cookies from your browser.

📖 Finding the Book ID

Open any book on O'Reilly and look at the URL — the book ID is the ISBN number:

https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/book-title/9781098150952/
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                        book_id

🚀 Usage

# Basic usage
oreilly2pdf <book_id> --cookie-file cookies.json

# Custom output filename
oreilly2pdf 9781098150952 --cookie-file cookies.json -o my_book.pdf

# Inline cookies instead of a file
oreilly2pdf 9781098150952 --cookies "orm-jwt=eyJ...; groot_sessionid=xyz"

# Keep individual chapter PDFs alongside the merged output
oreilly2pdf 9781098150952 --cookie-file cookies.json --keep-chapters

All Options

✨ Features

🔍 How It Works

1. Fetches the book's table of contents from the O'Reilly API.
2. Opens each chapter in headless Chrome with your session cookies.
3. Waits for all images (including lazy-loaded ones) to fully render.
4. Strips the O'Reilly UI — keeps only the book content.
5. Prints each chapter to PDF via Chrome DevTools Protocol.
6. Merges everything into a single PDF and rewrites cross-chapter links so they work as clickable in-document jumps.

⚖️ Disclaimer

This tool is intended for personal, offline use only by users who hold a valid O'Reilly Learning subscription. It accesses content you are already entitled to read through your account.

• Do not distribute, share, or upload exported PDFs.
• Do not use this tool to circumvent access controls or pirate content.
• You are solely responsible for complying with O'Reilly's Terms of Service and applicable copyright law.

The authors of this project are not affiliated with O'Reilly Media and assume no liability for misuse.

🙏 Acknowledgements

Inspired by oreilly-epub-downloader by @tctibbs.

📄 License

MIT