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Bypass Paywalls

Bypass Paywalls is a web browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites.

Installation Instructions

Google Chrome / Microsoft Edge (Custom sites supported)

  1. Download this repo as a ZIP file from GitHub.
  2. Unzip the file and you should have a folder named bypass-paywalls-chrome-master.
  3. In Chrome/Edge go to the extensions page (chrome://extensions or edge://extensions).
  4. Enable Developer Mode.
  5. Drag the bypass-paywalls-chrome-master folder anywhere on the page to import it (do not delete the folder afterwards).

Mozilla Firefox (Custom sites not supported)

Notes

  • Every time you open Chrome it may warn you about running extensions in developer mode, just click ✕ to keep the extension enabled.
  • You will be logged out for any site you have checked.
  • This extension works best alongside the adblocker uBlock Origin.
  • The Firefox version supports automatic updates.

Bypass the following sites' paywalls with this extension:

Adweek
American Banker
Ámbito
Baltimore Sun
Barron's
Bloomberg Quint
Bloomberg
Boston Globe
Brisbane Times
Business Insider
Caixin
Central Western Daily
Chemical & Engineering News
Chicago Tribune
Corriere Della Sera
Crain's Chicago Business
Daily Press
De Groene Amsterdammer
De Speld
De Tijd
De Volkskrant
DeMorgen
Denver Post
Diario Financiero
Domani
Dynamed Plus
El Mercurio
El Pais
El Periodico
Elu24
Encyclopedia Britannica
Estadão
Examiner
Expansión
Financial News
Financial Post
Financial Times
First Things
Foreign Policy
Fortune
Genomeweb
Glassdoor
Globes
Grubstreet
Haaretz.co.il
Haaretz.com
Harper's Magazine
Hartford Courant
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review China
Herald Sun
Het Financieel Dagblad
History Extra
Humo
Il Manifesto
Il Messaggero
Inc.com
Interest.co.nz
Investors Chronicle L'Écho
L.A. Business Journal
La Nación
La Repubblica
La Stampa
La Tercera
La Voix du Nord
Le Devoir
Le Parisien
Les Échos
Loeb Classical Library
London Review of Books
Los Angeles Times
MIT Sloan Management Review
MIT Technology Review
Medium
Medscape
Mexicon News Daily
Mountain View Voice
National Geographic
New York Daily News
NRC Handelsblad
NT News
National Post
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
New York Magazine
New Zealand Herald
Orange County Register
Orlando Sentinel
Palo Alto Online
Parool
Postimees
Quartz
Quora
Quotidiani Gelocal
Republic.ru
Reuters
San Diego Union Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle
Scientific American
Seeking Alpha
Slate
SOFREP
Statista
Star Tribune
Stuff
SunSentinel
Tech in Asia
Telegraaf
The Advertiser
The Advocate
The Age
The American Interest
The Athletic
The Athletic (UK)
The Atlantic
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian
The Business Journals
The Canberra Times
The Courier
The Courier Mail
The Cut
The Daily Telegraph
The Diplomat
The Economist
The Globe and Mail
The Herald
The Hindu
The Irish Times
The Japan Times
The Kansas City Star
The Mercury News
The Mercury Tasmania
The Morning Call
The Nation
The National
The New Statesman
The New York Times
The New Yorker
The News-Gazette
The Olive Press
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Saturday Paper
The Seattle Times
The Spectator Australia
The Spectator
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Telegraph
The Toronto Star
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
The Wrap
TheMarker
Times Literary Supplement
Towards Data Science
Trouw
Vanity Fair
Vrij Nederland
Vulture
Winston-Salem Journal
Wired
Zeit Online

Sites with limited number of free articles

The free article limit can normally be bypassed by removing cookies for the site.*

Install the Cookie Remover extension for Google Chrome or for Mozilla Firefox. Please rate it 5 stars if you find it useful.

When coming across a paywall click the cookie icon to remove the cookies then refresh the page.

*May not always succeed

New site requests

Only large or major sites will be considered. Usually premium articles cannot be bypassed as they are behind a hard paywall.

  1. Install the uBlock Origin extension if it hasn't been installed already. See if you are still getting a paywall.
  2. Check if using Cookie Remover (Google Chrome version or Mozilla Firefox version) can bypass the paywall. If not, continue to the next step.
  3. First search Issues to see if the site has been requested already.
  4. Visit an article on the site you want to bypass the paywall for and copy the article title.
  5. Open up a new incognito window (Ctrl+Shift+N on Chrome) or Private window (Ctrl+Shift+P on Firefox), and paste the article title into Google.
  6. Click on the same article from the Google search results page.
  7. If it loads without a paywall you can submit a request and replace the entire template text with the word "Confirmed". Otherwise please do not submit an issue as this extension cannot bypass it either.

Troubleshooting

  • This extension works best alongside uBlock Origin for Google Chrome or for Mozilla Firefox.
  • If a site doesn't work, try turning off uBlock and refreshing.
  • Try clearing cookies.
  • Make sure you're running the latest version of Bypass Paywalls.
  • If a site is having problems try unchecking "*General Paywall Bypass*" in Options.
  • If none of these work, you can submit an issue here.

Contributing - Pull Requests

PRs are welcome.

  1. If making a PR to add a new site, confirm your changes actually bypass the paywall.
  2. At a minimum these files need to be updated: README.md, manifest-ff.json, src/js/sites.js, and possibly src/js/background.js, and/or src/js/contentScript.js.
  3. Follow existing code-style and use camelCase.
  4. Use JavaScript Semi-Standard Style linter. Don't need to follow it exactly. There will be some errors (e.g., do not use it on sites.js).

Show your support

  • Follow me on Twitter @iamadamdev for updates.
  • I do not ask for donations, all I ask is that you star this repo.

Disclaimer

  • This software is provided for educational purposes only and is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. in no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.

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bypass-paywalls-chrome's Issues

Can make this extension compatible with the Chrome Web Store by loading external data

This extension could be made compatible with the Chrome Web Store by removing all sites and user-agents already included within it, and replacing them with external data that could be loaded by the user.

This would be similar to how the ad-blocking extensions work that load external filter lists.

Not only would this make the extension permissible in the Chrome Web Store, but also updates would then come in the form of updated data, with few or no updates in the extension itself. Users could then also manually add sites (and user-agents) without rebuilding the extension.

Site-specific characteristics (e.g., when to clear cookies) could take the form of check-boxes.

Support for seekingalpha.com?

Articles on seekingalpha.com go behind a paywall after a period of time (maybe a week). Is it possible to bypass that?

https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AMZN

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But if you open that paywalled article in Incognito mode you can read the first page. I think if you disable certain scripts it can load the entire article in a single page (rather than putting them behind multiple pages, with the paywall engaging when you click to page 2). Ideally being able to read the comments on the page would be good as well.

Thanks

More

Spectator.co.uk

Wired.com not in Chrome extension

Wired is in the Firefox extension, but not Chrome. Added it myself to the remove cookies list and options and it's working.
const remove_cookies = [

Installation instructions are incorrect

Hi, I've tried installing the extension by drag-and-dropping the folder into chrome://extensions but it doesn't work.

I did this instead:

  1. Open chrome://extensions, and switch "Enable developer mode" on.
  2. Click on "Pack extension", and choose the bypass-paywalls-chrome-master folder you have extracted from the ZIP file.
  3. Drag-and-drop the generated .crx file into chrome://extensions. It's in the bypass-paywalls-chrome-master parent directory.

Can't install extension

I follow the directions to drag the extension folder into the chrome extensions page, but nothing happens. Can you help me figure out what's going wrong?

Later I installed a file and it did install. But Chrome isn't letting me enable it because it says it's not found in the Chrome store.

Not working on certain Bloomberg articles

Hi there,

The extension doesn't seem to be working with certain bberg articles. For ex: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-04/colombia-s-50-billion-infrastructure-need-attracts-btg-ashmore

When I click on that link, I get a message saying that I have to be a Terminal subscriber to view the article. I have successfully bypassed the banner with ScriptSafe, but if I leave ScriptSafe on and browse other articles, the pictures on the articles are completely blurry. Thank you.

Tampermonkey

Can you add Bypass Paywalls for Chrome to Greasy Fork or OpenUserJS so that this extension can work with Tampermonkey and can update automatically? Thanks!

sfchronicle.com

Any chance sfchronicle.com's paywall can be circumvented?

caixinglobal.com request

Thanks for your plugin.

Can you add caixinglobal.com to bypass-paywall-chrome? The websites is on bypass-paywall-firefox.

And hope you can add caixin.com

Doesn't work on WSJ anymore?

It doesn't seem to work anymore, even after I removed the cookies from WSJ. Is anyone else having the same problem?

Medscape?

It looks like the Medscape bypass is no longer working. I'm seeing two paragraphs and a login box now.

Are you going to release this extension in the Chrome Web Store?

Hello? I appreciate your hard work for developing this money-saving extension.

I found this extension in Firefox Add-ons website, but the extension for Chrome users have no choice but to download the source code.

  1. Could you please tell me why it is not available in the Chrome Web Store?
  2. Are you planning to release this extension in the Chrome Web Store?

I look forward to your kind answer. Thank you.

Haaretz.co.il blank page

Hi Adam,

I've started getting completely blank pages on Haaretz.co.il with the latest versions on both Chrome and Firefox. Disabling the 'Haaretz' item in the extension's website list immediately fixes this, with the website showing as normal.

Any idea what this might be, please?

Doesn't work on Medium

Doesn't work on Medium
Is it currently working to bypass Medium paywall? I just can't make it work there.

Unable to install on Chrome extension.

I’m unable to install this extension on my chrome browser. I dragged the folder into the chrome extensions page, but nothing happens after that and the extension doesn’t install.

Would appreciate any advice and tips. Thank you.

The new york Times error

When i check the "The New York Times" checkbox for bypassing the paywall it crashes the login for nytimes.com and cooking.nytimes.com it does the same on firefox too please fix this

Thank you so much!

Could you consider adding support to foreignaffairs.com ?
Thank you so much for work in this extension, I really love it!

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