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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.

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

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)