Javascript API: How to disable print and "hide" url when using getDocFromUrl

[Dennis van Rijswijk]

Dear developers,

 

I am fairly new to Scribd and send the hereunder request.

 

Jerry, from Scribd, replied with the hereunder message:

Thank you for your interest in Scribd's services. Due to the high volume of requests, we cannot answer questions from our API developers. Your question is better asked on the Scribd API developers Google group. The Google group is monitored by Scribd engineers, power users, and other developers in the community. You can post your question at http://groups.google.com/group/scribd-platform-developers or send it via email to scribd-platfo...@googlegroups.com.

Any help in solving my problems would be greatly appreciated.

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Best regards,

 

Dennis

 

P.s. The CMS that I will be using is Websitebaker, which is PHP based.

 

 

## Original support request  ##

 

Dear,

I have searched and tried for over 10 hours and have not been able to solve my problems, so I decided to submit a request for assistance.

I am building a website that will display Scribd pages for members. Members should not be able to print and/or download the information (I do realise that they can still photograph their screen).

Using the javascript API I am able to create a new Scribd document from a PDF file, uploaded from within the CMS, and display them.

Unfortunately:
- the original URL to the PDF file is visible in the page source (In Firefox, right click => show source).
- the print option is not disabled (and I could not find the API setting)

To remove the URL to the original PDF file form being visible I tried to use api.getDocumentId and api.loadDocument (after the URL is uploaded using getDocFromUrl), but just cannot get it to work.

I also thought of perhaps using a .htaccess file to restrict access.

A possible solutions for disabling the print option is to login at www.scribd.com and manually disable the print option. However this defeats the purpose of using the API, in the first place.

Can you please help me solve the above problems?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Dennis

 

[Mike Watts]

Dennis,

Have you looked into using the docs.uploadFromURL API? This should be
called server-side, but it returns a doc_id and access_key that can be
used to display the document. To properly disable printing and
downloading, you can use the docs.changeSettings API passing in the
doc_id returned above and disable_print=1 and download_formats=

Hope that helps.

--Watts

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[dennis]

Hi Mike,

Thank you for the reply.

I'll try to get this to work and, if it does, post my solution for
other users.

Regards,

Dennis

On 21 dec, 19:15, Mike Watts <mwa...@scribd.com> wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> Have you looked into using the docs.uploadFromURL API?  This should be
> called server-side, but it returns a doc_id and access_key that can be
> used to display the document.  To properly disable printing and
> downloading, you can use the docs.changeSettings API passing in the
> doc_id returned above and disable_print=1 and download_formats=
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --Watts
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Dennis van Rijswijk
>
>
>
> <den...@schutterskwartier.nl> wrote:
> > Dear developers,
>
> > I am fairly new to Scribd and send the hereunder request.
>
> > Jerry, from Scribd, replied with the hereunder message:
>
> > Thank you for your interest in Scribd's services. Due to the high volume of
> > requests, we cannot answer questions from our API developers. Your question
> > is better asked on the Scribd API developers Google group. The Google group
> > is monitored by Scribd engineers, power users, and other developers in the
> > community. You can post your question at

> >http://groups.google.com/group/scribd-platform-developersor send it via

> > email to scribd-platfo...@googlegroups.com.
>
> > Any help in solving my problems would be greatly appreciated.
>
> > Many thanks in advance.
>
> > Best regards,
>
> > Dennis
>
> > P.s. The CMS that I will be using is Websitebaker, which is PHP based.
>
> > ## Original support request  ##
>
> > Dear,
>
> > I have searched and tried for over 10 hours and have not been able to solve
> > my problems, so I decided to submit a request for assistance.
>
> > I am building a website that will display Scribd pages for members. Members
> > should not be able to print and/or download the information (I do realise
> > that they can still photograph their screen).
>
> > Using the javascript API I am able to create a new Scribd document from a
> > PDF file, uploaded from within the CMS, and display them.
>
> > Unfortunately:
> > - the original URL to the PDF file is visible in the page source (In
> > Firefox, right click => show source).
> > - the print option is not disabled (and I could not find the API setting)
>
> > To remove the URL to the original PDF file form being visible I tried to use
> > api.getDocumentId and api.loadDocument (after the URL is uploaded using
> > getDocFromUrl), but just cannot get it to work.
>
> > I also thought of perhaps using a .htaccess file to restrict access.
>
> > A possible solutions for disabling the print option is to login at

> >www.scribd.comand manually disable the print option. However this defeats

[Mike Watts]

Thanks, Dennis.

We've also recently created several tutorials which you may find helpful:
http://www.scribd.com/developers/api?method_name=Tutorials

--Watts