Download free egghead.io videos

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Download free egghead.io videos

Download Egghead.io videos using Lynx Browser and youtube-dl. This method will only work for videos that do not require a pro account.

Prerequesits

You need a Unix/Linux box with Lynx console browser and Youtube-dl installed.

Lynx console Browser

Installation on Ubuntu(may require sudo)

$ apt-get install lynx

Installation on Fedora(may require sudo)

$ yum install lynx

Installation on Mac OS X(using homebrew)

$ brew install lynx

For all other Operating Systems, use your default package manager.

Youtube-dl

Official installation docs
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
EDIT: Since HLS videos are segmented into many small parts and youtube-dl requires ffmpeg to convert videos, you also need ffmpeg as written on this page.

Downloading Video files

The following example should work for Linux and Mac.

• Grab course or Lesson URL from egghead.io page
  Examples:
  https://egghead.io/courses/leverage-new-features-of-react-16
  OR
  https://egghead.io/lessons/react-error-handling-using-error-boundaries-in-react-16
• Assign this value to a variable, say 'url'.

$ url=https://egghead.io/courses/leverage-new-features-of-react-16

• Use the below command to download all videos for a course or a given specific lesson depending on the URL you provided in last step.

# Old script had a lot of issues on os such as freeBSD and mac
# New script is as below : 
$ lynx -source $url | grep -o -e 'https://[^"]*.m3u8' | xargs -n1 youtube-dl -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

# You can also use CURL instead of lynx browser as in below script
$ curl -L $url | grep -o -e 'https://[^"]*.m3u8' | xargs -n1 youtube-dl -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

UPDATE: Doesn't work on Mac as pointed out in the comments by @toddzebert and others. Try solutions from Nithanaroy and mutalis instead.

grep and xargs have different options on Mac (as it's FreeBSD not GNU based), but while this modified code worked without error, it does not download the videos lynx -source $url | grep -E -o 'https?://[^"]*\.m3u8' | xargs -0 -n1 youtube-dl -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

ERROR: Unable to download webpage: (caused by URLError('no host given',))

In Ubuntu this thing doesn't work either

i got following error on Mac

lynx -source $url | ggrep -P -o 'https?://[^"]*\.m3u8' | gxargs -d '\n' -n1 youtube-dl -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

[generic] react-error-handling-using-error-boundaries-in-react-16-f429153da1: Requesting header
[generic] react-error-handling-using-error-boundaries-in-react-16-f429153da1: Downloading m3u8 information
ERROR: requested format not available

same error RROR: requested format not available

The same problem:
[generic] react-error-handling-using-error-boundaries-in-react-16-f429153da1: Requesting header [generic] react-error-handling-using-error-boundaries-in-react-16-f429153da1: Downloading m3u8 information ERROR: requested format not available

The above solution partially works for me on a macOS 10.9.5. Audio of the clips are missing :(

url=https://egghead.io/courses/leverage-new-features-of-react-16
brew install youtube-dl
brew install ffmpeg
brew install lynx
lynx -source $url | grep -o -e 'https[^"]*\.m3u8' | xargs -n1 youtube-dl -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

---

Got it completely working usingffmpeg
lynx -source $url | grep -o -e 'https[^"]*\.m3u8' > list.txt

And a small python script which reads the list.txt and saves the files using ffmpeg

import os

with open("./list.txt") as f:
	for i, line in enumerate(f):
		line = line.strip()
		print "Downloading %s file" % (i,)
		out_file_name = "_".join(line.split("/")[-1].split("-")[:-1])
		outname = "{}_{}.mp4".format(i, out_file_name)
		# print outname
		os.system("ffmpeg -i {} {}".format(line, outname))

Use this command to download videos without using any additional script. @Nithanaroy @toddzebert @Shivamkrjha

lynx -source $url | grep -o -e 'https[^"]*.m3u8' | xargs -n1 youtube-dl -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"

It worked with OSX High Sierra and youtube-dl 2017.10.15.1

Said ffmpeg not installed on Ubuntu
Install ffmpeg on ubuntu.
sudo apt install ffmpeg

Hello all, these tricks and hacks works only for free lessons.
Any idea how to get pro lessons without pay 200$ for pro account?

I wrote a bash script that works (prerequisites: youtube-dl, lynx and ffmpeg):
https://gist.github.com/lsimone/4a334aca1a97ec41e56f42daf35e8cc6
It's a minimal quick 'n dirty implementation, but if you have any comment, just let me know.

@toddzebert
Your code runs perfectly fine on my FreeBSD system after dropping -0 from xargs.
For me, adding -0 back to xargs produces HTTP 403 Forbidden error followed by Error: Unable to download webpage from youtube-dl.

This snippet works on Mac and keep the files in order, prefixing them with "0x-", where x is the number of the episode. 😉

curl -sL $url \
    | grep -o -e 'https://[^"]*.m3u8' \
    | cat -n \
    | while read number file; do youtube-dl -o "$(printf "%02d" $number)-%(title)s.%(ext)s" $file; done

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