dl-coursera 1.1.0

Todo

• Lectures (videos, subtitles, slides)
• Reading materials
• Jupyter notebooks
• Quizzes

Install

Python ⩾3.10 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• This may not work if your OS is outdated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

   To download a specialization:

   dl_coursera --cookies path_of_the_cookies_file --outdir output_directory --spec slug
   

   To download a course:

   dl_coursera --cookies path_of_the_cookies_file --outdir output_directory slug
   

   For each course, a playlist.m3u file is generated in the course directory. It lists the downloaded videos and can be opened with VLC, mpv, or mplayer.

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   Extra options:

   • --quiz: include quizzes
   • --subtitles <languages>: comma-separated subtitle language codes without spaces, e.g. en,zh-CN. Typical codes: en, zh-CN, es, fr, de, pt-BR, ja, ko, ru, it, ar, hi. Default: download the only available language; otherwise English if available.

   

Note

• If math symbols do not render or images do not show in downloaded HTML files, the browser may be opening them from a Flatpak sandbox path such as file:///run/user/1000/doc/..., which prevents loading the local resource/ files. Open the files with a non-Flatpak browser, drag the directory containing resource/ into the browser window, or make the output directory accessible to the Flatpak sandbox.

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.

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