A cli tool for downloading Skillshare lesson videos
Project description
skillshare-dl
A cli tool for downloading Skillshare lesson videos.
Install
Install with pipx.
pipx install skillshare-dl
Usage
- Log into your Skillshare account.
You'll need an active Skillshare account to download lesson videos. As of June 2023, Skillshare offers a 1-month free trial to new users.
- Go to the course homepage that you want to download lesson videos for.
For example, here is the homepage for Kurzgesagt's Motion Graphics course.
- Get your access token.
Open your browser's Developer Tools and navigate to the browser storage tab. Find where cookies for "https://www.skillshare.com" are stored and find the cookie "access_token".
- Download the lesson videos.
Use the url of the course homepage and your access token with the skillshare-dl CLI
tool.
skillshare-dl \
"[your-course-url]" \
"[your-access-token]"
A complete example of this can look like:
skillshare-dl \
"https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/Motion-Graphics-with-Kurzgesagt-%E2%80%93-Part-1/631970755/projects?via=Selected-SearchSuggestion" \
"eyJhbGciOi98y1yCho98y112Cl8Ga21dac3usImtpZCI6IldC..."
If you're getting 401 errors, refresh the page and use the new access token that was generated.
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