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How to Download Lynda with youtube-dl with an organization login

Needed:

Cookies Export youtube-dl

  • Install Cookies Export
  • Login to Lynda and navigate to the course you want
  • Cookies export button in browser
  • Copy "cookie.txt" to your desktop
  • Open terminal

For OSX

$ cd ~/Desktop
$ brew install youtube-dl
$ youtube-dl --write-pages --cookies cookie.txt --verbose --limit-rate 4M https://www.lynda.com/Drupal-7-tutorials/Creating-and-Editing-Custom-Themes/86650-2.html --verbose

Login is stored in the cookie.txt file. This has a limited life and will expire. It might leave "dump" files if there is any errors. These can be deleted.

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