The coursera-downloader from srinivasgumdelli

coursera-downloader's Introduction

Note: This program is NOT affiliated with (or endorsed by) Coursera® in anyway.

##Coursera.org course downloader

This is a quick hack to download all video lecture & pdfs from a Coursera.org's course.

Downloads are resumable, so you can run this script often as the course progress (provided you use the same destination directory each time, and keep default names).

PS: This script is essentially a glorified bulk downloader (optimized for Coursera), so with zero/minor tweaking you may use it to download all (or particular class of) resources from any desired webpage (e.g., I use it to download course material from edX often)

###Usage

$ ./coursera-dl --help

USAGE: coursera-dl [options] <Resources_Page> <Destination_Directory>
Downloads all resources from a course page. Requires 'aria2c' to be installed.

Resources_Page                  Either path to a locally saved copy, or URL of the webpage containing links to all the resources
                                (e.g., 'https://class.coursera.org/algo2-002/lecture/index', '~/algo_lectures.html', etc)
Destination_Directory           Path to existing local directory where course resources will be downloaded.
options:
  -c, --cookie-file             Path to cookie file (e.g., ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Cookies).
  -h, --help                    Display this help message and exit.

Note:

You need to be logged into coursera in your browser, and provide a link to the browser's cookie file (for authentication purpose). Usual location for Google Chrome's cookie file (in Ubuntu) is: ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Cookies, similarly for Firefox (in Ubuntu): ~/.mozilla/firefox/<ProfileNameHere>/. After you login into coursera in your browser, provide the path to cookie file using --cookie-file parameter.
You need to have aria2c installed on your system to use this script. To install it on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install aria2

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