zeit-dl

An unofficial script to download PDF/EPUB/audio files from your Die ZEIT Digitalabo.

Disclaimer

This script uses your login credentials. Use at your own risk.

Requires playwright (with chromium driver):

pip install playwright
playwright install chromium

Then you just need to download the zeit-dl file from this repository.

Put your credentials and the desired output path in the .env file

ZEITDL_USER=youruser
ZEITDL_PASSWORD=yourpassword
ZEITDL_MOUNT=/your/path

and run docker compose up -d.

If you simply want to download the current issue of Die ZEIT as pdf run

python zeit-dl '<USERNAME>' '<PASSWORD>'

where your have to replace <USERNAME> and <PASSWORD> with your credentials.

For help and more options run zeit-dl --help.