Remember to export the cookie.txt file every time you download another tutorial because if you don't it will tell you that your Lynda session has expired.Remember you'll need to install BeautifulSoup library before you run the script! There it is! Youtube-dl will collect all the videos and download them automatically. Finally, after it parses all the links from the actual tutorial videos, it runs "youtube-dl -cookies cookies.txt" for every link that it found. This is extremely important you need to put the key URL that all the videos share in common because there are many more links in the page and you don't want youtube-dl returning a bunch of invalid URL errors.
Second, it will parse out only those links which have a key URL that all the videos share in common. First it will scrape all the links from a specific Lynda tutorial that you want to have, in this case the placeholder is " ". Downloading say 150 videos from a course manually one by one can be a real pain, so I wrote a small script to automate this process:ĮDIT: removed in order not to confuse, youtube-dl works fine with courses. Once that's done you just have to run "youtube-dl -cookies cookies.txt link-to-the-video" and it will download any video you want, but only ONE video - that is, youtube-dl won't collect all the Lynda videos in the course. Note that before exporting the cookie.txt file from your browser, you must log into your Lynda organization account. If you don't add this line at the very top of the cookie.txt file, Python won't read your file, even if it actually is in a Netscape format. Python does not only expect you to import a cookie.txt in a Netscape format but it also expects the cookie.txt to have a specific structure, so you will have to add a first line at the very top of the exported file being "# Netscape HTTP Cookie File" (without the quotes). I tried a few extensions in Chrome and Firefox before I was able to succeed and the only one that worked well was a Firefox add-on named "Cookie Exporter 1.5.1-signed" by fliwatüt. But you must be careful with the exact format of the cookie file you are importing from your browser. I have searched the internet for other tools that could download videos from Lynda when having an organization account and youtube-dl seems to be the only one that's able to do the job.Ī partial solution was presented in issue #4888 which talked about importing cookies in order to bypass authentication - This works. It is quite easy and just requires a tiny bit of manual labor. I am writing to present my solution to this problem which has appeared previously in issue #4888 and issue #5636.
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