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

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 (where only frist 2 videos download successfully while others fail with "No video URL found" errors) by using a headers.txt as per below.

Method 1: Using Developer Tools (Recommended)

1. Create a file named headers.txt and place it in the folder you want to download your courses to.
2. Open the Developer Tools in your browser:
   • Chrome: Press Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Option+I (macOS)
   • Firefox: Press F12 or Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Option+I (macOS)
3. Go to the Network tab and refresh the page.
4. Filter requests by typing linkedin.com/learning-api in the filter box to find relevant API requests.
5. Click on any of the filtered requests and go to the Headers section.
6. In the Request Headers section, you can filter headers by typing x-li-identity to quickly find the header value.
7. Copy the x-li-identity header value.
8. Open the headers.txt file and paste in the values of x-li-identity and User-Agent as shown below:

Method 2: Using Page Source (Alternative)

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 "

[!NOTE]
Page source may show HTML-encoded characters like = which should be =:

❌ x-li-identity=MTU2NDI0NjQ5LDIxNzM4MTk1Nik=
✅ x-li-identity=MTU2NDI0NjQ5LDIxNzM4MTk1Nik=

Headers File Format

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