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Scribd Storage

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Free tier	100 MB max per document; no published account-level document or storage cap ("you can continue to upload more documents ... as often as you like"). Effectively per-record 100 MB x unlimited records. unit unlimited; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	100 MB/file (100000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	Not free-at-scale and not scriptable: downloads are gated by the uploader's setting and often by a Scribd subscription; there is no public direct-file URL, and pages are served as HTML viewer assets.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	per-object-cap 100 MB/file source 100 MB/file; upload requires a registered, in-good-standing account; uploader agreement grants Scribd rights to restrict access/download and to "train machine learning ... models" on content; conversion failures on large or layered PDFs.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rclone wrapper-only
Tooling	No working public API — the official client github.com/scribd/rscribd was archived in Oct 2019; community libs (JSCRIBD, rscribd) are dead against the current site. No rclone backend.
Composes with	100 MB/record x unlimited records is the right shape, but the chain needs a browser-driven uploader and the download side is paywalled, so it can store but not serve.
Reliability	Uploaded documents get converted and can fail conversion; download availability is controlled by Scribd policy, not the uploader, so retrieval can be revoked unilaterally.
Notes	100 MB max per document; no published account-level document or storage cap ("you can continue to upload more documents ... as often as you like"). Effectively per-record 100 MB x unlimited records.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 100.0 MB

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/articles/210134786-Uploading-a-d	'Scribd supports multiple file formats, with a maximum size of 100MB'
2026-10-21	support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/articles/210134586-Troubleshooti	'Scribd supports documents up to 100 megabytes in size'
2026-10-21	support.scribd.com/hc/en-us/articles/210129466-Uploader-Agre	'We reserve the right to restrict access to view or to download your Content'
2026-10-21	scraperly.com/scrape/scribd	'Scribd's official API client library (github.com/scribd/rscribd) was archived by the owner on October 24, 2019'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "100 MB max per document; no published account-level document or storage cap (\"you can continue to upload more documents ... as often as you like\"). Effectively per-record 100 MB x unlimited records.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (7)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted