- Must have an account associated with https://www.oreilly.com/
- Or a trial account with https://www.oreilly.com/
- Mac/Linux Environment
- git clone this repo
- change to the cloned directory:
cd vid_dl
- Update the
batch-file.txtwith the URL of the video from https://www.oreilly.com/. Sample URL format to populate thebatch-file.txt
https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/bash-shell-scripting/9780137689064/
- Make the file
yt-dlp.shexecutable
chmod +x yt-dlp.sh
- Once completed execute the command below (whilst in the
vid_dldirectory) to automate the DL.
./yt-dlp.sh -u <EMAIL_OREILLY_ACCOUNT> -p <PW> -a batch-file.txt -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s'
Where the following notation are:
- -u specify email account that is associated https://www.oreilly.com/
- -p password use to login oreilly
- -a specify the path to
batch-file.txt - -o this specifies the particular format to rename the videos. Recommended to not modify this. Sample command:
./yt-dlp.sh -u [email protected] -p hello! -a batch-file.txt -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s'
Expecta similar output below:
[debug] System config: ['-i', '-v', '-c', '--no-warnings', '--console-title', '--batch-file=batch-file.txt', '-o', '%(playlist_title)s/%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', 'best[tbr<=1000]/worst[[height>=720]]/best[[height<720]]']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE', '-a', 'batch-file.txt', '-o', '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Batch file urls: ['https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/bash-shell-scripting/9780137689064/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2021.06.06
[debug] Git HEAD: 801958b7c
[debug] Python version 3.8.5 (CPython) - macOS-10.16-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[safari:course] Downloading login page
[safari:course] Logging in
[safari:course] Completing login
[safari:course] 9780137689064: Downloading course JSON
[download] Downloading playlist: Bash Shell Scripting, 2nd Edition
[safari:course] playlist Bash Shell Scripting, 2nd Edition: Collected 126 video ids (downloading 126 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 126
[safari:api] Downloading login page
[safari:api] 9780137689064/BSS2_00_00_00: Downloading part JSON
[safari] Downloading login page
[safari] 9780137689064-BSS2_00_00_00: Downloading kaltura session JSON
....
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How to get a valid cookies.txt file
- Install Firefox with this Plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookies-txt/
- Use Firefox to login to linkedin:learning
- Play a learning video e.g. on this page. https://www.linkedin.com/learning/python-essential-training-2/hello-world?u=2251738
- Use the plugin to export the file
cookies.txt
-
How to get the "x-li-identity” header value
- In Firefox press Ctrl-Shift-E to open the Network Monitor TAB (development console).
- Reload the linkedin:learning page with the video.
- In the Network Monitor, search for “urn”, and click on one of the lines with the HTTP requests. (the naming of it will be somthing like this
urn%3Ali%3AenterpriseAccount% - Scroll down to the very bottom and you will see request header line “x-li-identity: dX...”, and copy the value to your command line option: --add-header "x-li-identity:..."
- Execute the command to download:
./yt-dlp.sh --cookies "cookies.txt" --add-header "x-li-identity: dX..." -a batch-file.txt -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s'
- Feel free to populate the
batch-file.txtwith a linkedin learning video as example:
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/continuous-integration-and-continuous-delivery-with-gitlab
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