dl-coursera 1.0.1

A simple, fast, and reliable Coursera crawling & downloading tool

Todo

• Lectures (videos, subtitles, slides)
• Readings
• Jupyter notebooks
• Quizs

Install

Python ⩾3.8 is required.

Install the dl_coursera package in a virtual environment.

$ pip install -U dl_coursera
$ dl_coursera --version

Alternatively, you can download dl_coursera as a single executable from https://github.com/FLZ101/dl_coursera/releases/. Note:

• This may not work if your OS is outdated
• On Windows, SmartScreen may prevent execution of the executable

How-to

1. Get the cookies file

   Sign into Coursera, then use a browser extension to export cookies as a cookies file which will expire in about two weeks.

   For Chrome/Edge/Firefox, you can use the Cookie-Editor extension.

   

2. Enroll

   Navigate to homepage of the specialization/course you'd like to download, you can see its slug at the address bar. Enroll in.

   

3. Download

   dl_coursera --cookies path_of_the_cookies_file --outdir output_directory slug
   

   For example:

   $ dl_coursera --cookies cookies.txt --outdir __data advanced-modeling
   ███████████████████████████████ [100%] 56/56 Crawling...
   ███████████████████████████████ [100%] 212/212 Downloading...
   Done :-)
   

Troubleshooting

1. Check your network

2. Make sure you have enrolled in the specialization/course

3. If the cookies file might have expired, try getting a new one

4. Try upgrading to the latest version

5. Remove the directory <output-directory>/<slug>/.cache and try again

6. Visit the issues page. You may find a solution if others has encountered similar issues.

   Or you could create a new issue describing what is going wrong and the steps to reproduce it. Don't forget to attach the file <output-directory>/<slug>/.cache/main.log if it exists.