Add Support for LinkedIn Learning (very similar to Lynda.com)

[bokazero]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-python']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.01.21
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.4, avprobe 11.4, ffmpeg 3.2.4, ffprobe 3.2.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] learning-python: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/learning/internal-server-error
[generic] internal-server-error: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to https://www.linkedin.com/
[generic] www.linkedin: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] www.linkedin: Downloading webpage
[generic] www.linkedin: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://www.linkedin.com/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2192, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2541, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2530, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 769, column 14
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 784, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 438, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3108, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: https://www.linkedin.com/
...
<end of log>

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-python/what-you-should-already-know?autoplay=true
• Single video: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-python/what-you-should-already-know
• Playlist: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/learning-python

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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There're some issues that users are trying to download video/courses from LinkedIn, but it's not implemented.

PS: The LinkedIn Learning is the same as Lynda.com, so it should work very similar

PS2: In case you need a user + password, you can sign in for a month trial or 3 months free if subscription if you are a Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials user (free).

Related Issues: #13545 #9819 #15120 #14233 #9973 #9843

[bokazero]

Hi @dstftw, I'm afraid this issue is not duplicated.

None of the related issues is to add support to LinkedIn.com/learning, the new website LinkedIn Learning. They are related to the deprecated Lynda.com which is going to be migrated to LinkedIn.com/learning that has been released very recently.

Also, none of the previous issues provides the correct single video and playlist URLs.

Thanks.

[Ser-Zile]

I can confirm that as of typing this comment LinkedIn Learning is still not working.