udemy-dl

A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.

Important Note:

Don't share your credentials until the issue is properly tagged/labeled with account-needed.
Owner of this repository is not responsible for any miss use if you share your credentials with strangers.

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Features

Resume capability for a course video.
Supports organization and individual udemy users both.
Save course direct download links to a text file (option: --save).
Cache credentials to a file and use it later for login purpose (option: --cache).
List down course contents and video resolution, suggest the best resolution (option: --info).
Download/skip all available subtitles for a video (options: --sub-only, --skip-sub).
Download specific chapter in a course (option: -c / --chapter).
Download specific lecture in a chapter (option: -l / --lecture).
Download specific subtitle for a lecture (option: -s / --sub-lang).
Download chapter(s) by providing range in a course (option: --chapter-start, --chapter-end).
Download lecture(s) by providing range in a chapter (option: --lecture-start, --lecture-end).
Download lecture(s) in requested resolution (option: -q / --quality).
Download course to user requested path (option: -o / --output).
Authentication using cookies (option: -k / --cookies).
Download/save lecture names (option: --names).
Download lectures containing unsafe unicode characters in title/name (option: --unsafe).

How to login with cookie

The cookies.txt file should have the following simple format, eg:

access_token=JKU9QNs2IQDBKoYKvOBclSPXN97baf32o1Jo2L9vX

Finding your access token value

Firefox users : guide by @01ttouch
Chrome users : guide by @01ttouch

Requirements

Python (2 or 3)
Python pip
Python module requests
Python module colorama
Python module unidecode
Python module six
Python module requests[security] or pyOpenSSL

Module Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt

Tested on

Windows 7/8/8.1/10
Kali linux (2017.2)
Ubuntu-LTS (64-bit) (tested with super user)
Mac OSX 10.9.5 (tested with super user)

Download udemy-dl

You can download the latest version of udemy-dl by cloning the GitHub repository.

git clone https://github.com/r0oth3x49/udemy-dl.git

Usage

Download a course

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL

Download course with specific resolution

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -q 720

Download course to a specific location

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -o "/path/to/directory/"

Download course with specific resolution to a specific location

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -q 720 -o "/path/to/directory/"

Download specific chapter from a course

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -c NUMBER

Download specific lecture from a chapter

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -c NUMBER -l NUMBER

Download lecture(s) range from a specific chapter

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -c NUMBER --lecture-start NUMBER --lecture-end NUMBER

Download chapter(s) range from a course

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL --chapter-start NUMBER --chapter-end NUMBER

Download specific lecture from chapter(s) range

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL --chapter-start NUMBER --chapter-end NUMBER --lecture NUMBER

Download lecture(s) range from chapter(s) range

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL --chapter-start NUMBER --chapter-end NUMBER --lecture-start NUMBER --lecture-end NUMBER

List down specific chapter from a course

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -c NUMBER --info

List down specific lecture from a chapter

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL -c NUMBER -l NUMBER --info

Download specific subtite by using language code such as (en, es) if lang switch is not specified then default will be all subtitles

python udemy-dl.py COURSE_URL --sub-lang en

Advanced Usage


Author: Nasir khan (r0ot h3x49)

usage: udemy-dl.py [-h] [-v] [-u] [-p] [-k] [-o] [-q] [-c] [-l] [-s]
                   [--chapter-start] [--chapter-end] [--lecture-start]
                   [--lecture-end] [--save] [--info] [--cache] [--names]
                   [--unsafe] [--sub-only] [--skip-sub]
                   course

A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for
personal offline use.

positional arguments:
  course            Udemy course.

General:
  -h, --help        Shows the help.
  -v, --version     Shows the version.

Authentication:
  -u , --username   Username in udemy.
  -p , --password   Password of your account.
  -k , --cookies    Cookies to authenticate with.

Advance:
  -o , --output     Download to specific directory.
  -q , --quality    Download specific video quality.
  -c , --chapter    Download specific chapter from course.
  -l , --lecture    Download specific lecture from chapter(s).
  -s , --sub-lang   Download specific subtitle/caption (e.g:- en).
  --chapter-start   Download from specific position within course.
  --chapter-end     Download till specific position within course.
  --lecture-start   Download from specific position within chapter(s).
  --lecture-end     Download till specific position within chapter(s).

Others:
  --save            Do not download but save links to a file.
  --info            List all lectures with available resolution.
  --cache           Cache your credentials to use it later.
  --names           Do not download but save lecture names to file.
  --unsafe          Download all course with unsafe names.
  --sub-only        Download captions/subtitle only.
  --skip-sub        Download course but skip captions/subtitle.

Example:
  python udemy-dl.py  COURSE_URL
  python udemy-dl.py  COURSE_URL -k cookies.txt
  python udemy-dl.py -u user@domain.com -p p4ssw0rd COURSE_URL

Todo (for next release)

Restructure code.
add proper logging for information and errors.
add support to download multiple courses from file
add support to download just EN subtitles by default
add switch to keep vtt subtitles as well.
Add support to download 1080p if available. (most waited feature)
Add support to download course on a flaky connection.

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