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. 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)