This Lynda.com Video Downloader written with Python 3 will help you download all specified course videos in separate folders. You need to be an existing Lynda.com user in order to use it.

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Lynda.com Video Downloader

This Lynda.com Video Downloader written with Python 3 will help you download all specified course videos in separate folders. You need to be an existing Lynda.com user in order to use it.

Dependencies

Script uses Beautiful Soup 4 and youtube-dl. You can install them with commands:

sudo pip3 install youtube-dl

sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup4

For more info on installation visit their respective web pages.

Usage

  1. Add your credentials (Lynda.com username and password) to settings in download.py
  2. Add course URLs in links.txt (first remove sample URLs)
  3. Go to file directory where download.py and links.txt are saved and run download.py from the terminal with: python download.py or python3 download.py
  4. Wait until all videos are downloaded and have fun watching them.

Extra

Subtitles

By default the subtitles are downloaded. If you wish to download videos without subtitles replace SUBTITLES = True with SUBTITLES = False

Downloader

Default downloader is aria2c. If you wish to change it edit EXTERNAL_DL = 'aria2c'

Archive

By default ids of all downloaded videos will be placed in archive.txt. To disable archive comment it out from the options. Example:#'download_archive' : ARCHIVE,.

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