Support for www.safaribooksonline.com

[zx8]

Contrary to what the URL might suggest, Safari Books Online has plenty of video lessons as well - quite similar to Lynda.com support which is already implemented.

Sample URL - https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/swift-fundamentals-livelessons/9780134049939/

[zx8]

Looks like there's a handy REST API we can hit to extract the various bits of info we need, e.g. https://www.safaribooksonline.com/api/v1/book/9780134049939

Safari use Brightcove to serve their videos which seems to have been already implemented in #832, so this might be a bit easier than I thought it'd be.

[zx8]

Right, it seems that downloading chapter previews one-by-one works out of the box using GenericIE, i.e.:

youtube-dl https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/swift-fundamentals-livelessons/9780134049939/part00.html

All we need to do is: given a base course URL, handle login, extract (or infer, as the example below attempts to) the list of chapters via the REST API and then use BrightcoveIE to download them.

[zx8]

Gave this a go myself - #5262

Will continue this thread on the PR.

[gabrielcnr]

@zx8 is this still working for you? I think Safari changed their media server to Kaltura instead of Brightcove. Tried to workaround that but no luck.

[zx8]

@gabrielcnr It won't work anymore, no.

My subscription to Safari recently expired so I don't really have the motivation update the extractor, I'm afraid. I'm sure someone else will come along and pick it up eventually! 😄

[diman82]

I have an active subscription to safari, how can I aid to provide a support for it?

[yan12125]

Seems safaribooksonline is already added. Open a new issue if something goes wrong.