[Site support request] www.scribd.com

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• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2016.07.30

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• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v https://www.scribd.com/document/120585475/nx
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.scribd.com/document/120585475/nx']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.07.30
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-31-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.6-1ubuntu2, ffprobe 2.8.6-1ubuntu2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] nx: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] nx: Downloading webpage
[generic] nx: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.scribd.com/document/120585475/nx
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1610, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2525, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2514, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1653, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1517, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 118, column 117
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 682, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2336, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.scribd.com/document/120585475/nx
...
<end of log>

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single document: https://www.scribd.com/document/120585475/nx

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Here is a Greasemonkey Script that didn't work
http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/160374

[dstftw]

Downloading documents is out of scope of youtube-dl.