Treehouse video downloader

Summary

Treehouse Video Downloader downloads videos (with optional subtitles) from the specified Treehouse courses and workshops.

Dependencies

Install all dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

or install them separately

• requests

pip install requests

• youtube-dl

pip install youtube_dl

• BeautifulSoup 4

pip install beautifulsoup4

Usage

1. Add your credentials to main.py file

USERNAME = 'your_username'
PASSWORD = 'your_password'

2. define the courses/workshops you would like to download in the links.txt file. Example list of the courses/workshops is already in the file.
3. Go to file directory where main.py and links.txt are saved and run main.py from the terminal with: python main.py
4. Wait until all videos are downloaded and have fun watching them.

If the download of the video fails, the course URL will be saved in log.txt.

Options

Subtitles

If you would like to:

• download the subtitles of the videos set SUBTITLES = True. They are not downloaded by default.
• download ONLY subititles and not the videos set SUBTITLES = True and comment out the line that downloads the video

# ydl.download([videolink])

Video format

The default video format is webm, but you can also get mp4 files, just change VIDEO_FORMAT = 'mp4' in the main.py script.

One of the users noticed mp4 video format downloads only 30 sec clips so test it to make sure mp4 format is available for a particular course.

Downloader

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

Additional options

You can extend the script by adding options in the options variable:

options = {
    'outtmpl': output,
    'external_downloader': EXTERNAL_DL
    # ,'verbose': True
}

Here is the list of all options (however not all of them work): https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py#L129-L290

Feel free to experiment and test.

Notes

You can upgrade youtube-dl with sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

Upgraded on 4 May with 2 functions from project https://github.com/dx0x58/Treehouse-dl

Script was tested with the youtube-dl 2019.4.30 and Python 3.6.7.