simple script to asynchronously download udemy course
Project description
udemy-dl
Goals
A python script using asyncio to speedup downloading for Chinese udemy users who cannot watch video online because of China GFW
Thanks
This project is based on udemy-dl and adds asyncio support to it.
Features
- Asynchronously download course videos.
- Resume capability for a course video.
- Download specific chapter in a course (option:
-c / --chapter
). - Download specific lecture in a chapter (option:
-l / --lecture
). - Download chapter(s) by providing range in a course (option:
--chapter-start, --chapter-end
). - Download lecture(s) by providing range in a chapter (option:
--lecture-start, --lecture-end
). - Download course to user requested path (option:
-o / --output
).
Requirements
-
Python>=3.7
-
requests
-
aiohttp
Download async-udemy-dl
You can download the latest version of async-udemy-dl by cloning the GitHub repository.
git clone https://github.com/Firkraag/async-udemy-dl
Pip install
pip install async-udemy-dl
After installation, pip will install a script named async-udemy-dl
in your executable path, so async-udemy-dl
can replace python async-udemy-dl.py
in the Usage section.
Usage
This project uses cookies to authenticate with, so you must specify cookie file on commandline with option -k cookies_file
.
Please follow Extracting Cookies / Request Headers to save udemy cookies to files before using this script.
Download a course
python async-udemy-dl.py -k COOKIES_FILE COURSE_URL
Download course to a specific location
python async-udemy-dl.py -k COOKIES_FILE COURSE_URL -o "/path/to/directory/"
Download specific chapter from a course
python async-udemy-dl.py -k COOKIES_FILE COURSE_URL -c NUMBER
Download specific lecture from a chapter
python async-udemy-dl.py -k COOKIES_FILE COURSE_URL -c NUMBER -l NUMBER
Download lecture(s) range from a specific chapter
python async-udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -k COOKIES_FILE -c NUMBER --lecture-start NUMBER --lecture-end NUMBER
Download chapter(s) range from a course
python async-udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -k COOKIES_FILE --chapter-start NUMBER --chapter-end NUMBER
Download specific lecture from chapter(s) range
python async-udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -k COOKIES_FILE --chapter-start NUMBER --chapter-end NUMBER --lecture NUMBER
Download lecture(s) range from chapter(s) range
python async-udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -k COOKIES_FILE --chapter-start NUMBER --chapter-end NUMBER --lecture-start NUMBER --lecture-end NUMBER
Extracting Cookies / Request Headers
-
Login to your udemy account via browser.
-
Once you are logged in right click on page the search for option called Inspect Element and click on that.
-
Under that look for Network Tab and click on that. Under that Network Tab click on Requests type XHR .
-
Now click on My Courses in the Udemy navbar and refresh the page you will see some requests under Network Tab.
-
Right click on request links to udemy.com/api-2.0/. Simply copy Request Headers and save to text file.
-
The above guide is for Firefox users. Chrome Users can follow guide by @lamlephamngoc.
-
Done run the async-udemy-dl against that text file it will start downloading the course.
Advanced Usage
Author: Firkraag (Firkraag)
usage: async-udemy-dl.py [-h] [-v] -k cookie_file [-d] [-o] [-c] [-l]
[--chapter-start] [--chapter-end] [--lecture-start]
[--lecture-end] course
A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for
personal offline use.
positional arguments:
course Udemy course.
General:
-h, --help Shows the help.
-v, --version Shows the version.
Authentication:
-k , --cookies cookies_file Cookies to authenticate with.
Advance:
-d, --debug output debug info to screen
-o , --output Download to specific directory, if not specified, download to current directory.
-c , --chapter Download specific chapter from course.
-l , --lecture Download specific lecture from chapter(s).
--chapter-start Download from specific position within course.
--chapter-end Download till specific position within course.
--lecture-start Download from specific position within chapter(s).
--lecture-end Download till specific position within chapter(s).
Example:
python async-udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -k cookies.txt
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