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

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.

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

Note: Leave a comment if the tool doesn't work.

Tool doesn't work for PRO Lessons