
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.


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