r0oth3x49/udemy-dl is a Backend project on GitHub, written primarily in Python. It has 5.0k stars. A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.
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A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.
Warning
Udemy has started to encrypt many of the course videos, so downloading them may be impossible/illegal because it involves decrypting DRM'd videos which opens up the author to DMCA takedowns/lawsuits. If you use udemy-dl and some/all videos are skipped, please don't open a new issue or comment that the issue still exists. All requests to bypass DRM/encryption will be ignored.
If you'd like to see the full context, then read issue 627.
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Requirements
Python 3 only (Now udemy-dl doesn't support python 2)
Python pip
Python module requests
Python module colorama
Python module unidecode
Python module six
Python module cloudscraper
Python module requests[security] or pyOpenSSL
FFmpeg (to download hls based streams properly)
Module Installation
pip install -r requirements.txt
HLS streams download requirements
You would need FFmpeg to be installed and added to environment variable so that udemy-dl can access.
Download FFmpeg from here
On ubuntu you can install it via apt install ffmpeg.
Add to environment variables then udemy-dl will be able to use it when downloading HLS streams.
Tested on
Windows 7/8/8.1/10
Ubuntu-LTS (tested with super user)
Features
Added proper session management.
Resume capability for a course video.
Added proper logging errors and warnings.
Support multiple courses download from file.
Supports organization and individual udemy users both.
Added support to download hls based streams if available.
Added functionality to reset lecture number to start from 1.
Added switch for session caching on demand. (option: --cache)
Convert WebVTT to SRT but donot delete WebVTT. (option: --keep-vtt)
Skip fetching HLS streams, This will make the fetching fast. (option: --skip-hls)
List down course contents and video resolution, suggest the best resolution (option: --info).
Download/skip all available subtitles for a video (options: --sub-only, --skip-sub).
Download/skip all available assets for a video (options: --assets-only, --skip-assets).
Download specific chapter in a course (option: -c / --chapter).
Download specific lecture in a chapter (option: -l / --lecture).
Download specific subtitle for a lecture (option: -s / --sub-lang).
Download chapter(s) by providing range in a course (option: --chapter-start, --chapter-end).
Download lecture(s) by providing range in a chapter (option: --lecture-start, --lecture-end).
Download lecture(s) in requested resolution (option: -q / --quality).
Download course to user requested path (option: -o / --output).
Authentication using cookies (option: -k / --cookies).
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How to login with cookie
The cookies.txt file should have the following simple format, eg:
python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -c NUMBER --lecture-start NUMBER --lecture-end NUMBER
Download chapter(s) range from a course
python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL --chapter-start NUMBER --chapter-end NUMBER
Download specific lecture from chapter(s) range
python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL --chapter-start NUMBER --chapter-end NUMBER --lecture NUMBER
Download lecture(s) range from chapter(s) range
python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL --chapter-start NUMBER --chapter-end NUMBER --lecture-start NUMBER --lecture-end NUMBER
List down specific chapter from a course
python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -c NUMBER --info
List down specific lecture from a chapter
python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -c NUMBER -l NUMBER --info
Download specific subtite by using language code such as (en, es) if lang switch is not specified then default will be all subtitles
python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL --sub-lang en
Advanced Usage
Author: Nasir khan (r0ot h3x49)
usage: udemy-dl.py [-h] [-v] [-u] [-p] [-k] [-o] [-q] [-c] [-l] [-s] [--chapter-start] [--chapter-end] [--lecture-start] [--lecture-end] [--info] [--cache]
[--keep-vtt] [--sub-only] [--skip-sub] [--skip-hls] [--assets-only] [--skip-assets]
course
A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.
positional arguments:
course Udemy course.
General:
-h, --help Shows the help.
-v, --version Shows the version.
Authentication:
-u , --username Username in udemy.
-p , --password Password of your account.
-k , --cookies Cookies to authenticate with.
Advance:
-o , --output Download to specific directory.
-q , --quality Download specific video quality.
-c , --chapter Download specific chapter from course.
-l , --lecture Download specific lecture from chapter(s).
-s , --sub-lang Download specific subtitle/caption (e.g:- en).
--chapter-start Download from specific position within course.
--chapter-end Download till specific position within course.
--lecture-start Download from specific position within chapter(s).
--lecture-end Download till specific position within chapter(s).
Others:
--info List all lectures with available resolution.
--cache Cache your session to avoid providing again.
--keep-vtt Keep WebVTT caption(s).
--sub-only Download captions/subtitle only.
--skip-sub Download course but skip captions/subtitle.
--skip-hls Download course but skip hls streams. (fast fetching).
--assets-only Download asset(s) only.
--skip-assets Download course but skip asset(s).
Example:
python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL
python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -k cookies.txt
python udemy-dl.py -u [email protected] -p p4ssw0rd COURSE_URL
TODO
Add support to download course on a flaky connection.
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