Simple tool to download video lectures from edx.org. It requires a Python interpreter (> 2.6), youtube-dl, and BeautifulSoup4. It is platform independent, and should work fine under Unix, Windows or Mac OS X.
We use youtube-dl to download video lectures from Youtube, with the main
idea being that "we don't want to reinvent the wheel". Make sure you have
youtube-dl installed in your system. Also, since Youtube changes its
layout frequently, make sure that the version of youtube-dl that you have
installed is the latest. If in doubt, run youtube-dl --update.
You can find youtube-dl at http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html.
Scrapping the web can be very silly task, but BeautifulSoup makes it so easy :), it isn't included in the python standard library. Make sure you have BeautifulSoup installed.
You can install it with
pip install beautifulsoup4
or
easy_install beautifulsoup4.
For more information, please see http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/#Download.
To use edx-dl.py, simply excute it, as in:
python edx-dl.py
You will then be asked your username and password.
Your downloaded videos will be placed in a new Directory called "Downloaded". The script is very interactive, and if you have a issue please tell us.
You can also excute it with arguments given: email and password, as in:
python edx-dl.py [-u user@user.com] [-p password]
These are the current supported sites:
This is the full list of sites powered by Open edX. Feel free to contribute your patches to include them.
The original file was written by @shk3 in/for python3 then updated
by @emadshaaban92 for python2, and migrated for versions superior to
2.6 by @iemejia.