YouTube-dl

Application :youtube-dl

Download Multiple Courses At Once without typing much.

Downloadyoutube-dl.exe

1. Add location ofyoutube-dl.exeto path variable
2. Create ayoutube-dl.conffile and put it -

• On WindowsC:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf
• On Linux/etc/youtube-dl.conf

put the following lines inyoutube-dl.conf

-u <Username>
-p <Password>
-i
-c
--no-warnings
--console-title
--batch-file='batch-file.txt'
--max-sleep-interval 80
--min-sleep-interval 60
-o '%(playlist_title)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s'
-f 'best[height<=720]/worst[height>720]'

Putbatch-file.txtwhere you want to download the courses.

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/project-2016-business-professionals

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/moving-technical-professional-management

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/it-outsourcing-running-initiative

Suppose you put thebatch-file.txtonD:\Downloads\batch-file.txt

Open command prompt and go toD:\Downloadsand run

D:\Downloads> youtube-dl

Now all your courses will be downloaded onD:\Downloads

From now on just update the URLs of the courses you want to download inbatch-file.txtfile, Open command prompt and go toD:\Downloadsand run

D:\Downloads> youtube-dl

Important:Pluralsight may block your account if you download too many courses at once. 3–5 is a good size if the course size is average.

PS:Please let me know if you face any problem following the procedure.

Update 1:

1. Please Use Cookies instead of

-u <Username>
-p <Password>

The cookies switch should be something like:

--cookies 'cookies.txt'

You can download the cookies from the browser and place it in the directory where you want to runyoutube-dl. Google how to download cookies.txt for the browser you are using.

2. Make Sure Your Browser User Agent & youtube-dl User Agent is same.

--user-agent "$UserAgent"

To get your current browser user agent go toWhat is my User Agent?

User agents look something like:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.157 Safari/537.36

Now, use it with---user-agent.

3. It might be a little inconvenient but you have to replace:

-i
-c

With

--abort-on-error

These steps are to make sure you do not get blocked.

So the resultingyoutube-dl.conf becomes:

--abort-on-error
--no-warnings
--console-title
--batch-file='batch-file.txt'
--user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0"
--cookies 'cookies.txt'
--socket-timeout 10
--retries 10
--continue
--fragment-retries 10
--min-sleep-interval 60
--max-sleep-interval 80
-f 'best[height<=720]/worst[height>720]'
-o '%(playlist_title)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(playlist_index)d-%(title)s.%(ext)s'

Still there are few issues remaining. I will In-Shah-Allah get back to you as soon as I get all the answers.