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How to Download Lynda with youtube-dl

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How to Download Lynda with youtube-dl with an organization login

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Cookies Export youtube-dl

Install Cookies Export
Login to Lynda and navigate to the course you want
Cookies export button in browser
Copy "cookie.txt" to your desktop
Open terminal

For OSX

$ cd ~/Desktop
$ brew install youtube-dl
$ youtube-dl --write-pages --cookies cookie.txt --verbose --limit-rate 4M https://www.lynda.com/Drupal-7-tutorials/Creating-and-Editing-Custom-Themes/86650-2.html --verbose

Login is stored in the cookie.txt file. This has a limited life and will expire. It might leave "dump" files if there is any errors. These can be deleted.

mahdimohajeri commented Jun 19, 2018

Hi. Is it possible to use some commands so files get sorted? When I download a course, the files are sorted by name, not their order on lynda.com. So it's really hard and I have to sort them myself by renaming and putting numbers in the beginning of their names :(

melledijkstra commented Aug 12, 2018 •

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@a-eid @mahdimohajeri Maybe you could use some of the variables to get the current download number and put this in front of the filename format.
EDIT: there is a autonumber variable which you could use like so: "%(playlist)s/%(autonumber) %(title)s.%(ext)s"

Ush1nd1 commented Jan 28, 2020

Hi, does this method only download one video at a time or can I download the entire subject?

zikyfranky commented Nov 24, 2020 •

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Hi. Is it possible to use some commands so files get sorted? When I download a course, the files are sorted by name, not their order on lynda.com. So it's really hard and I have to sort them myself by renaming and putting numbers in the beginning of their names :(

youtube-dl https://www.lynda.com/CSS-tutorials/CSS-Essential-Training/5038219-2.html --cookies cookies.txt -o %(chapter_number)s-%(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s

This will structure it by sections and playlist index.

Learnpython-code commented Mar 11, 2021

How can download since video number until the last video number, because the download stop and got winerror 10060 a connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond.

zikyfranky commented Mar 15, 2021