cloudacademy-dl 0.1.1

Disclaimer

This tool is only meant to be used only if you CloudAcademy account supports lecture downloads.

Installation instructions

This script requires Python 3 and a CloudAcademy account. The preferred way to install this script is to use pip as this will download the latest version from PyPI and all the necessary dependencies.

pip install cloudacademy-dl

Alternatively, one can clone this repository and install the dependencies manually or using pip via

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage Instructions

To download a course, all you need to do is run the script specifying your CloudAcademy.com username, and the URL of the course that you would like to download:

cloudacademy-dl --email=<CloudAcademy login email> <course url>

The script will then ask you for you CloudAcademy account password before it can start the download.

The optional command line arguments for the script are:

--help              Prints out the list of command line arguments.
--password=<pass>   The password for your CloudAcademy account. If this is not
                    passed in as a command line argument it will be asked for
                    before the download can start.
--res=<resolution>  The required video resolution. Allowed values are 360,
                    720, and 1080. The default value for this argument is
                    1080.
--out=<output_dir>  The directory where the videos are saved. If this command
                    line argument is not specified, then they will be saved in
                    current directory under courses/.

Contact information

Please report any bugs and issues on github. Additionaly I can also be reached on twitter under the handle [@josefgalea](http://twitter.com/josefgalea).