Download videos from Linux Academy / LinuxAcademy-DL

Python script to download videos from your LinuxAcademy account for offline viewing

Requirements

• Python 3.6 and above
• BeautifulSoup - https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/
• html5lib - https://pypi.org/project/html5lib/
• Selenium - https://pypi.org/project/selenium/
• ChromeDriver - http://chromedriver.chromium.org/
• youtube_dl - https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/
• Get cookies.txt - https://bit.ly/GoogleChrome-GetCookiesTxt
• FFMpeg - https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Usage

Clone the repo

Run pip install -r requirements.txt

FFmpeg should be installed and available on the path

Login to LinuxAcademy and visit the course page e.g. https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/287 and with the Get cookies.txt extension installed, click on the icon of the extension and click on Export.

Rename the downloaded linuxacademy.com_cookies.txt file to cookies.txt and copy it to root of the cloned repo. Make sure that the name of the file is cookies.txt. Repeat when you encounter an exception while downloading the videos (assuming you have an active subscription).

course_link e.g. https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/287

>>> python driver.py username password course_link

What's New

• Now less verbose
• Minor enhancements and fixes

To-Do

Automate the process for obtaining cookies