├── README.md
└── lynda-dl.py


/README.md:
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 1 | # lynda-dl
 2 | 
 3 | Works for ubuntu 14.04 and Python 2.7.6.
 4 | 
 5 | ## Install beautifulsoup:
 6 | 
 7 |     sudo apt-get install python-bs4
 8 | 
 9 | ## Install youtube-dl:
10 | 
11 | Install youtube-dl via pip (not apt) to have the "good" version:  
12 | 
13 |     sudo apt-get install python-setuptools  
14 |     sudo easy_install pip
15 |     sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
16 | 
17 | ## HOW TO:
18 | 1. Select your course on **http://www.lynda.com/** and replace the link on **line 8** by your link.
19 | 2. Replace the key URL on **line 12** by your key URL.  
20 | 3. Replace yourLogin and yourPassword **on line 15** by your login and your password to access the site.  
21 | 4. Run script:
22 |        python lynda-dl.py
23 | 5. The downloaded videos are in the current folder.  
24 | 


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/lynda-dl.py:
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 1 | # adapted from http://fossbytes.com/how-to-download-lynda-com-videos-using-youtube-dl/
 2 | 
 3 | import os
 4 | import httplib2
 5 | from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer
 6 | 
 7 | http = httplib2.Http()
 8 | status, response = http.request('http://www.lynda.com/Unity-tutorials/Unity-5-2D-Building-Tile-Map-Editor/384876-2.html') # url from the site you'd like to scrape
 9 | 
10 | for link in BeautifulSoup(response).find_all('a', href=True):
11 |     #print link['href']
12 |     if 'http://www.lynda.com/Unity-tutorials/' in link['href']: # parse only the links that contain the key URL to your specific tutorial
13 |         l = link['href']
14 |         #print l
15 |         os.system("youtube-dl --username yourLogin --password yourPassword " + l) # login + password lynda to change. nb : the space after your password is usefull
16 | 


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