Downloading Udemy videos with youtube-dl

udemy-courses-download-using-cookies.md

How to download your Udemy course videos using youtube-dl

$ youtube-dl --list-extractors | grep udemy

Steps

1. Get link to the course to download. e.g. https://www.udemy.com/course-name/
2. Login into udemy website, save the cookie from chrome using Chrome (Cookie.txt)1 export extension. Save it to file udemy-cookies.txt
3. Get the link of the video that you want to download. usually in format. Use the command provided below where you have to replace the {course_link} and {path_to_cookies_file} with respective paths.

$ youtube-dl {course_link} --cookies {path_to_cookies_file}

$ youtube-dl --cookies ./udemy-cookies.txt https://www.udemy.com/course-name/

Notes

• If you have previously installed youtube-dl, you should update it before attempting to download your Udemy courses

  $ youtube-dl -U
  

• If you want your videos to be organized by chapter and the indices included, you can specify the output flag -o

  $ youtube-dl --cookies ./udemy-cookies.txt -o '%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s. %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.udemy.com/course-name/
  

udemy-videos-download.sh

# List available formats
youtube-dl -u <username> -p <password> -F -o './videos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.udemy.com/course-name/

# Download the specified format
youtube-dl -u <username> -p <password> -f <desired-format> -o './videos/%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.udemy.com/course-name/

# Download specific items
youtube-dl <url> --cookies <cookies-filename> --playlist-items "<comma-separated-indices>"

# Skip specific indices
youtube-dl <url> --cookies <cookies-filename> --playlist-start START_NUMBER