sekou448/udemy_dl

Python script to download a udemy.com course, for personal offline use.

Python script to download a udemy.com course, for personal offline use.

Disclaimer:

This software is intended to help you download Udemy courses for personal use only. Sharing the content of your subscribed courses is strictly prohibited under Udemy Terms of Use. Each and every course on Udemy is subjected to copyright infringement. This software does not magically download any paid course available on Udemy, you need to provide your Udemy login credentials to download the courses you have enrolled in. udemy_dl downloads the lecture videos by simply using the source of the video player returned to the user by Udemy after proper authentication, you can also do the same manually. Many download managers use same method to download videos on a web page. This app only automates the process of a user doing this manually in a web browser.

Version

0.2.2-alpha.4

Downloads:

These files are custom ports that do not need dependencies

Platform	Arch	Version	Link
Windows	x86_x64	0.2.2-alpha.4	Download
Mac	x64	0.2.2-alpha.4	Coming Soon
Linux	x86_x64	0.2.2-alpha.4	Coming Soon

Prerequisites

• Python (2 or 3)
• pip (Python Install Packager)
• Python module requests
  • If missing, they will be automatically installed by pip

Preinstall

If you don't have pip installed, look at their install doc. Easy install (if you trust them) is to run their bootstrap installer directly by using:

sudo curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python

Install

udemy-dl can be installed using pip

pip install udemy-dl

or

python -m pip install udemy-dl

In OS X and Linux you need to sudo installing udemy-dl or you may face some errors

sudo pip install udemy-dl

Also you need to sudo installing pip itself or you run into the same problem.

Update

udemy-dl can be updated using pip

pip install --upgrade udemy-dl

or

python -m pip install --upgrade udemy-dl

In OS X and Linux you need to sudo upgrade udemy-dl

sudo pip install --upgrade udemy-dl

Usage

Simply call udemy-dl with the full URL to the course page.

udemy-dl https://www.udemy.com/COURSE_NAME

or

python -m udemy_dl https://www.udemy.com/COURSE_NAME

udemy-dl will ask for your udemy username (email address) and password then start downloading the videos.

By default, udemy-dl will create a subdirectory based on the course name. If you wish to have the files downloaded to a specific location, use the -o /path/to/directory/ parameter.

If you wish, you can include the username/email and password on the command line using the -u and -p parameters.

udemy-dl -u [email protected] -p $ecRe7w0rd https://www.udemy.com/COURSE_NAME

If you don't want to download but save links to a file for later downloading with a different downloader

python -m udemy_dl -s https://www.udemy.com/COURSE_NAME

For information about all available parameters, use the --help parameter

udemy-dl --help

Advanced Usage

usage: udemy-dl [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD]
                [--lecture-start LECTURE_START] [--lecture-end LECTURE_END]
                [-o OUTPUT] [-d {aria2c,axel,httpie,curl}] [--use-ffmpeg]
                [-q VIDEO_QUALITY] [-s] [--safe-file-names] [-l] [--debug] [--use-course-title]
                [-v]
                link

Fetch all the lectures for a udemy course

positional arguments:
  link                  Link for udemy course

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            	show this help message and exit
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
							Username / Email
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
							Password
  --lecture-start LECTURE_START
							Lecture to start at (default is 1)
  --lecture-end LECTURE_END
							Lecture to end at (default is last)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
							Output directory / text file path (if saving links)
  -d {aria2c,axel,httpie,curl}, --external-downloader {aria2c,axel,httpie,curl}
							Download with external downloader [aria2c, axel,
							httpie, curl] (default is aria2c)
  --use-ffmpeg          	Download videos from m3u8/hls with ffmpeg
							(Recommended)
  -q VIDEO_QUALITY, --video-quality VIDEO_QUALITY
							Select video quality [default is 654321(highest)]
  -s, --save-links      	Do not download but save links to a file
  --safe-file-names     	Use safe cross-platform filenames
  -l, --list            	Just list all of the possible lectures and their ids
  --debug               	Enable debug mode
  --use-course-title	Use the course title for the parent folder name (WARNING: can make file path too long
  -v, --version         	Display the version of udemy-dl and exit

Uninstall

udemy-dl can be uninstalled using pip

sudo pip uninstall udemy-dl

You may uninstall the required requests module too but be aware that those might be required for other Python modules.