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Bulk download of Coursera videos with wget
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/* | |
* Bulk download of Coursera videos with wget. | |
* | |
* Copyright (c) 2014 Anton Ivanov anton.al.ivanov@gmail.com | |
* | |
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy | |
* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal | |
* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | |
* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell | |
* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is | |
* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: | |
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in | |
* all copies or substantial portions of the Software. | |
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR | |
* IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, | |
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE | |
* AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER | |
* LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, | |
* OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN | |
* THE SOFTWARE. | |
* | |
* Note that for using wget you should be authenticated to the Coursera web site | |
* and be enrolled to the course for which you are downloading videos. | |
* | |
* How to download Coursera videos: | |
* | |
* 1. Open course page where video lectures are available on the Coursera site | |
* 2. Open the developer console of your browser | |
* 3. Copy/paste this script to the developer console, then execute it | |
* 4. Copy the generated script from the shown popup and save it in a file | |
* 5. Export cookies from your browser for wget, for example, for Firefox use the following add-on | |
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/ | |
* Save cookies in the text file cookies.txt in the same directory as the generated script file | |
* 6. Execute the generated script, files will be downloaded to the folder where script is located | |
*/ | |
(function() { | |
var counter = 0; | |
function findLinks() { | |
return [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("a[title=\"Video (MP4)\"]"), 0); | |
} | |
function getTitle(link) { | |
var titleContainer = link.querySelector("div"); | |
var titleHtml = titleContainer.innerHTML; | |
var match = titleHtml.match(/Video \(MP4\) for (.*)/); | |
counter++; | |
return counter + " " + match[1] + ".mp4"; | |
} | |
function getUrl(link) { | |
return link.getAttribute("href"); | |
} | |
function wgetCommandLine(title, url) { | |
return "wget --load-cookies cookies.txt -O \"" + title + "\" " + url; | |
} | |
var commandLines = findLinks().map(function(link) { | |
return wgetCommandLine(getTitle(link), getUrl(link)); | |
}); | |
alert(commandLines.join("\n")); | |
})(); |
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