An XBMC / Kodi addon that allows the user to watch Lynda.com courses.
I made this plugin as there seemed to be a demand for it and it didn't exist. I use a Raspberry Pi running OpenElec (Kodi) at home and I wanted to be able to easily watch Lynda.com courses on the T.V.
- Download or clone this repository.
- Copy the folder 'plugin.video.lynda' to your XBMC / Kodi addons directory (Linux is usually ~/.kodi/addons and Windows is usually somewhere in %APPDATA%\kodi\addons). If you are using Kodi on a RaspberryPi or a headless system, you should be able to SSH into the device and SCP/SFTP the folder over. There are plenty of instructions online for how to do this.
- Configure the plugin settings (by right clicking/long pressing on the addon in Kodi) with your login credentials.
- Supported login types: Regular Lynda.com accounts, Organisational accounts (including school accounts)*, IP Site license accounts
- See the notes below on how to login to organisational accounts.
Previously this addon attempted to parse the login forms of your organisation's sites. This caused a lot of problems. To make this work properly for everyone, you now have to manually enter a valid login token.
- Go to lynda.com and log in to your organisational account.
- Copy the 'token' cookie value from Dev Tools. E.g. in Chrome, open Dev Tools with Ctrl+Shift+I. Go to the 'Application' tab. Select 'Cookies' in the sidebar and the lynda.com domain. Double click the value field of the 'token' cookie and copy it.
- Create a file in this addons user data directory (you may want to have run the addon at least once to create this directory) called 'user_login_token' and paste the token value in the file. If your Kodi box is remote, you can do this via SSH. On Linux, the directory might be something like
/home/yourusername/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.lynda
. - In the Lynda.com addon settings make sure to select the 'Organisation' login type.
- Start the addon. If it says you're not logged in, try exiting the addon and running it once again.