futurelearn-dl

An early Python3ic attempt at automating downloads from the FutureLearn website (for enrolled courses).

There are no doubt problems with this, but it seems to work on my initial tests

TESTED: Tested on Windows 8 under Cygwin, using Anaconda Python3. Should work for other installations ... YMMV

futurelearn-dl.py:

First attempt at a Python3 version.

Currently succeeds to obtain authenticity_token and to login using this token.

It then

downloads the appropriate course page
downloads each 'week' page for the course
downloads each 'step' page for each week of the course
finds downloadabls urls (pdf and mp4 for the moment) in each 'step' page
it chooses a filename (not a meaningful one for mp4) and downloads to that file
- skips already downloaded files
- it skips the file if it contains "request signature": seems to indicate a video file which isn't available yet

This is simply a template for calling futurelearn-dl.py.

Put your email, password and course_id as arguments within this file

''' futurelearn-dl.py <course_id> <course_run>[<week_num>]

e.g.

for run 1 of data-to-insight

futurelearn-dl.py  user password data-to-insight 1

or to get just week1:

futurelearn-dl.py  user password data-to-insight 1 1

'''

Note: To override the temp file directory export TMP_DIR=/tmp

Note: To override the output file root directory export OP_DIR=/e/Education/FUTURELEARN

Note: Under cygwin, Anaconda I needed to set in the form DRIVE:/path e.g. export OP_DIR=e:/Education/FUTURELEARN