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How to download your Udemy course videos using youtube-dl

$ youtube-dl --list-extractors | grep udemy

Steps

  1. Get link to the course to download. e.g. https://www.udemy.com/course-name/
  2. Login into udemy website, save the cookie from chrome using Chrome (Cookie.txt)[1] export extension. Save it to file udemy-cookies.txt
  3. Get the link of the video that you want to download. usually in format. Use the command provided below where you have to replace the {course_link} and {path_to_cookies_file} with respective paths.
$ youtube-dl {course_link} --cookies {path_to_cookies_file}