A python package for archiving content from coursera.org (videos, lecture notes, quizzes, …) for offline reference. Originally forked from https://github.com/abhirama/coursera-download but significantly cleaned up and enhanced.

Some people have asked if they could donate something. If you wish you can do so here:

Make sure you have installed Python and pip.

Then simply run: pip install coursera-dl

Depending on your setup this will create a coursera-dl script in /usr/local/bin (linux) or c:\\Python2.7\\Scripts (windows)

(to upgrade use pip install --upgrade)

See: coursera-dl -h

Example usage:

$ coursera-dl -u MYUSERNAME -p MYPASSWORD -d MYPATH algo-2012-001 ml-2012-002

Note: you can also specify your login and password in .netrc file in your home directory. Just add this line to ~/.netrc

machine coursera-dl login MYUSERNAME password MYPASSWORD

Then set the permission of ~/.netrc to 600 (owner can read and write).

$ chmod 600 ~/.netrc

Now you can use coursera-dl like this:

$ coursera-dl -d MYPATH algo-2012-001 ml-2012-002

Note: ensure you have accepted the honor code of the class before using this script (happens the very first time you go to the class page).