A while back i stambled upon this post and quickly decided to look for more holes on Daily Nation Epaper Website. It only took me like 30 minutes to go through it and YES i found one Big door still open!!!!! I can not really say this was a h*ck but whatever you call it, i was able to access every page of DN epaper with ease. I then jumped to C# and developed a simple tool to help those who care to enjoy free downloads before DN closes the door if they have the capacity to do so.
Time to get our hands dirty.
I uploaded the Dn epaper download tool here. Please download the tool from that link.
Once you have downloaded the rar file, unzip it, this should give you a windows installer with the name NM Downloader.msi
Run this file for installation.
Its good to note the installation path, in my case its C:\Program Files\RedToe\NM Downloader\
Then click next..
Once the download is complete, check your desktop you should find the application shortcut as shown below.
Run the nation Crawler, for Windows 7 guys please navigate to the installation path(C:\Program Files\RedToe\NM Downloader\) and run the application as administrator.
You should get an interface like this
If you are not behind a proxy just click Download else check use proxy and fill your proxy details.
You should get something like this
Thats the application in action. It will download the epaper per page. From the monitor you can see it has created a folder with to days date and inside it there are PDFs 001,002,003….
When the application gets to the last page, it will give an exception, this means you are done.
There you have your daily paper. You can use open source PDF merging tools to merge the files to one.
If you got any challenges with this, leave your comments here and i will respond.
happy downloading.. & spread the word.
More h*cks coming soon!
DN Free Epaper Downloader 
Hi, good wrk but the dwnloaded pdfs cannot open. Adobe reader returning error that the file nt supported r damaged.
What could be the problem?
Sorry for the late response, try today it should be working the right way
Hey gud stuff works like magic
access denied………………
hey there you are really good thanks for the initiative, now is there a way to get the standard E-paper.
i get this error Access to the path ’01 May 2012 KE’ is denied.? and am not behind any proxy
Hi thanks for the innovation, why do i get this error message
Access to the path ’09 Jun 2012 KE’ is denied.
when running the application, right click and run as administrator
Could you please do the same for the EAStandard?
Will check how it works..
Hey! The software has been working great up to until sometime last week, it doesn’t seem to download now. Please help. Thanks
Sorry for the late response, it works now.
was great, but it no longer works.
Sorry for the late response, it works now.
it no longer works
Sorry for the late response, it works now.
Thanks for your sharing. I downloaded the epaper redtoe application but it doesn`t work. reason it is giving me a message that the url is invalid;hostname could not be parsed. How do i get my ip address ,domain, port ,username and password.Please advise. Martin Gathirwa
Hallo Martn, sorry for the late response, if you are behind a firewall u will need to use the the hostname n the other options.. but if you are not just proceed and click download..
thanks