llvd 3.1.0

Linkedin Learning Video Downloader CLI Tool

Table of Contents

• Linkedin Learning Video Downloader (LLVD) download links
• Features
• Prerequisites
• Installation
  • Windows Users
• Common questions
  • How do I find the course slug?
  • Cookie-based authentication
  • Header-based authentication
• Examples
  • Accessing llvd documentation
  • Using cookie-based authentication
  • Using header-based authentication
  • Download a course at a specific resolution
  • Download a course with subtitles
  • Download a course path with throttling between 30 to 120 seconds
• Screenshots
• Author

Linkedin Learning Video Downloader (LLVD) download links

Features

Status	Feature
✅	cookie-based authentication
✅	download by learning path
✅	download a course and all its exercises
✅	group videos by chapters
✅	subtitles
✅	nice progress bar
✅	resume failed downloads
✅	skip already downloaded videos
✅	set video format (360p, 540p, 720p)
✅	all platforms

Prerequisites

• Python 3

Installation

$ pip --no-cache-dir install llvd

If you have multiple versions of python installed in your system, use pip3 instead.

$ pip3 --no-cache-dir install llvd

Running from local installation

llvd --help
llvd -c "course-slug" -r 720

Running from docker container

# You will need to either use `docker cp` to get the course or mount it when running.
docker run ghcr.io/knowbee/llvd:master -c "course-slug" -r 720

Windows Users

When you get 'llvd' is not recognized as an internal or external command after successfully installing llvd, run python3 -m llvd <flags>

Common Questions

How do I find the course slug?

1. Click on the desired course
2. Your URl will look something like, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/l-essentiel-d-asp-dot-net-core-pour-dot-net-5
   • The course slug is: l-essentiel-d-asp-dot-net-core-pour-dot-net-5

How do I setup cookie-based authentication?

1. Click on the options in Google Chrome (top right with 3 vertical dots).
2. Click on More tools -> Developer tools
   • You can also reach here by using the keyboard combination: ctrl+shift+I).
3. Now once you’ve gained access to the developer tools, navigate to the Application tab, and copy the value of two cookies named li_at and JSESSIONID
4. Create a file named cookies.txt and place it in the folder you want to download your courses to
5. Open the cookies.txt file and paste in the values of li_at and JSESSIONID

li_at=xxxxx
JSESSIONID="ajax:xxxxxx"

How do I setup header-based corporate account access?

If you have a corporate connected account you can fix the download issue by using a headers.txt as per below.

1. Create a file named headers.txt and place it in the folder you want to download your courses to
2. Right click on the page and select view source
   • You can also reach here by using the keyboard combination: ctrl+U.
3. Search for enterpriseProfileHash using ctrl+F
4. enterpriseProfileHash":"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"," copy the code between the double "

5. Open the `headers.txt` file and paste in the values of `x-li-identity` from the above.

x-li-identity=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 

Examples

Accessing llvd documentation

$ llvd --help

Using cookie-based authentication

$ llvd -c "course-slug" --cookies

Using header-based authentication

Has to use cookies in conjection with headers

$ llvd -c "course-slug" --cookies --headers

Download a course at a specific resolution

$ llvd -c "course-slug" -r 720

Note: The default is set to 720.

Download a course with subtitles

    $ llvd -c "course-slug" --caption

or

    $ llvd -c "course-slug" -ca

Download a course path with throttling between 10 to 30 seconds

To avoid rate limits because of downloading a lot of videos, use the following:

$ llvd -p "path-slug" -t 10,30

Screenshots

Author

Igwaneza Bruce