suyashb95/nptel-dl

A small command-line program to download video lectures from nptel.ac.in

nptel-dl

A small command-line program to download lecture videos from nptel.ac.in

================================================================== ##Installation

####From Source

• Clone the repo or download the zip
• Make sure you have pip installed
• cd to the folder
• pip -install -r "requirements.txt"

##Usage

• nptel-dl.py [-h] [--url URL] [--dir DIR] [--mp4] [--3gp] [--limit] [--include] [--exclude]
• The default directory is the current working directory and the default format is flv.
• On the terminal or Command Prompt Type 'python nptel-dl.py --url "url" --dir "directory" --mp4'
• The --include option overrides the --exclude option.
• Example : python nptel-dl.py --url 'http://nptel.ac.in/courses/108103007/' --dir 'D:\Tutorials' --mp4

#Options -h, --help show this help message and exit --url URL The URL to download videos from. --dir DIR The directory to save videos in. Default value is the current working directory. --mp4 Download in MP4 format. --3gp Download in 3GP format. --exclude exclude a specific list of videos.(list of space separated inteers) --include Download a specific list of videos.(list of space separated integers) --limit limit the number of videos.(Single integer) --range Range of videos to download.(Two space separated integers.)

###Dependencies

• BeautifulSoup - For HTML parsing
• Requests - for retrieving HTML

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