DESCRIPTION

This project is not maintained. My motivation to implement the feature of downloading course videos from CDN is to bypass GFW. I noticed d37djvu3ytnwxt.cloudfront.net is sometimes interfered by GFW. So I lost the incentive. Btw, the feauture of downloading course videos from CDN has been implemented in the original project coursera-dl/edx-dl.

Simple tool to download video lectures from edx.org.

You are recommended to use stand-alone executables. Choose the link according to your operating system,

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac

Otherwise, it requires the Python interpreter (> 2.6), youtube-dl, BeautifulSoup4 and it's platform independent. It should work fine in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X.

DEPENDENCIES

If you use the stand-alone executables converted by PyInstaller, ignore this part.

youtube-dl

By default, this program will download video from CDN directly. However there may be some videos hosted only on youtube. So you are recommened to install youtube-dl. Also, since Youtube changes its layout frequently, make sure that the version of youtube-dl that you have installed is the latest. If in doubt, run youtube-dl --update.

You can find youtube-dl at http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html.

BeautifulSoup

Scrapping the web can be very silly task, but BeautifulSoup makes it so easy :), it isn't included in the python standard library. Make sure you have BeautifulSoup installed.

You can install it with

pip install beautifulsoup4

or

easy_install beautifulsoup4.

For more info, see http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/#Download.

Files

edx-dl.py

Python implementation for edx-downloader

The original file was written by @shk3 in/for python3 then updated by @emadshaaban92 for python2, and migrated for versions superior to 2.6 by @iemejia.

Quick Start

To use edx-dl.py, simply excute it, as in:

python edx-dl.py

You will then be asked your username and password.

Your downloaded videos will be placed in a new Directory called "Downloaded". The script is very interactive, and if you have a issue please tell us.

You can also excute it with arguments given: email and password, as in:

python edx-dl.py [-u [email protected]] [-p password]

If you want to download video from youtube instead of CDN, append the parameter --no-cdn to the command,

python edx-dl.py [-u [email protected]] [-p password] --no-cdn