README.md

Download videos from Linux Academy / LinuxAcademy-DL

Python script to download videos from your LinuxAcademy account for offline viewing

Requirements

• Python 3.5 and above
• BeautifulSoup - https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/
• html5lib - https://pypi.org/project/html5lib/
• Selenium - https://pypi.org/project/selenium/
• ChromeDriver - http://chromedriver.chromium.org/
• youtube_dl - https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/
• cookies.txt - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg?hl=en

Usage

Clone the repo

Install Python requirements

>>> pip install -r requirements.txt

Login to LinuxAcademy and visit the course page e.g. https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/287 and with the cookies.txt extention installed, click on the icon of the extension and choose To download cookies for this tab click here. Copy the downloaded txt file to root of the cloned repo. Make sure that the name of the file is cookies.txt. Repeat when you an encounter exception in downloading the videos (assuming you have an active subscription).

course_link e.g. https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/287

>>> python3 driver.py username password course_link

To-Do

Automate the process for obtaining cookies