Coursera Downloader

• to answer several similar questions in quora:

    Is there a way to mass download the materials from a Coursera course?
    
    How can I download all the video lectures of a coursera course in one go?
    
    Are there any ways to batch download the complete course videos on coursera new platform?
    
    How do I write a Python script that automatically downloads all the videos of the course from Coursera?
    
    Ashish Kedia: How can I write a Script in Python to mass download all course videos from Coursera new platform and name them by lecture title?
    

Download all videos in all weeks of all lesson in one specified course.

• downloading from the old 'http://class.coursera.org' is easy since:

  • it is a simple html and can be parsed with html parser;
  • all links to the course material is provided in one page url;
  • you can use many popular software like 'DownThemAll' to download all the materials you wish to download;
  • there are many solutions already provided in github.com for this purpose;

• downloading from the new 'https://www.coursera.org' however is harder since:

  • it is javascript rendered and must be parsed using a browser engine, meaning: the html elements you want to parse may not be visible until you view it in a browser;
  • links to the course materials are spread within many page urls;
  • you will get tired of downloading after 144 urls;

• this compiled python gives solution to download all videos, subtitles and transcripts in:

    https://www.coursera.org/

• usage:

    python www-coursera-downloader.pyc

• You will be prompted to supply user (email) and password for your Coursera account;

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-------------------- WELCOME TO COURSERA DOWNLOADER -------------------
please kindly support my daily sustenance: vera.verum.veritas@gmail.com

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one time setup user and password

Enter your e-mail address: vera.verum.veritas@gmail.com
vera.verum.veritas@gmail.com

Enter your Coursera password: somesecretwords
***************

User and password has been saved to coursera.pass file.
Please delete the file if you want to change your credentials.

• Your credentials are encrypted and then saved locally into a file named coursera.pass placed in the same folder of this script.

• You will be prompted to select the course:

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-------------------- WELCOME TO COURSERA DOWNLOADER -------------------
please kindly support my daily sustenance: vera.verum.veritas@gmail.com

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Getting courses list...
Welcome to Coursera!

There are 13 courses available

[1] Machine Learning: Regression
[2] Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach
[3] Using Databases with Python
[4] Using Python to Access Web Data
[5] R Programming
[6] Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods
[7] Machine Learning: Recommender Systems & Dimensionality Reduction
[8] Machine Learning: Clustering & Retrieval
[9] Machine Learning: Classification
[10] The Data ScientistÔÇÖs Toolbox
[11] Computational Investing, Part I
[12] Machine Learning for Data Analysis
[13] Practical Machine Learning

[  ] Please pick course number!

• bot will crawl all the lesson in all weeks of your selected course;
• it then will download all the videos, subtitles and transcripts in your selected course.

Requirements

• Python packages requirements:

    Crypto, os, re, sys, splinter, selenium, time, urllib2

• Javascript package requirement:

    phantomjs

• Download PhantomJS from phantomjs.org:

    http://phantomjs.org/download.html

• You may want to use phantomjsInstaller.sh within this repository.

• for windows users please check recommended packages here.

if you find it useful please donate: vera.verum.veritas@gmail.com, I am looking for a new job.