How to Download Lynda with youtube-dl

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

Needed:

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

youtube-dl have some flags for this

--playlist-start NUMBER          Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
--playlist-end NUMBER            Playlist video to end at (default is last)