get_tutsplus_urls.py

import requests
import sys
import re
import urllib

cookie = {'PHPSESSID': 'phulssv3eg4bijf3cb423beve4'}

def get_lesson_urls(html):
    urls = re.findall('http[s]?://(?:[a-zA-Z]|[0-9]|[$-_@.&+]|[!*\(\),]|(?:%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]))+', html)
    return [url for url in urls if 'lesson' in url]

def get_page(url):
    rv = requests.get(url, cookies=cookie)
    return rv.text

def get_video_url(html):
    result = re.search(r"download_url':'(.+?)'", html)
    url = result.groups()[0]
    return urllib.unquote(url)

def main():
    try:
        course_url = sys.argv[1]
    except IndexError:
        print 'The first parameter must be course URL'
        exit(-1)

    print 'Course URL:', course_url

    print 'Getting all course URLs'
    html = get_page(course_url)
    urls  = get_lesson_urls(html)
    print urls

    for url in urls:
        # print 'Getting video URL for', url
        html = get_page(url)
        print get_video_url(html)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()