LLVD (Linkedin Learning Video Downloader)

Features

Status	Feature
✅	cookie-based authentication
✅	download by learning path
✅	download a course and all its exercises
✅	group videos by chapters
✅	subtitles
✅	nice progress bar
✅	resume failed downloads
✅	skip already downloaded videos
✅	set video format (360p, 540p, 720p)
✅	all platforms

Prerequisites

• Python 3

Installation

$ pip --no-cache-dir install llvd

If you have multiple versions of python installed in your system, use pip3 instead.

Example

Running from local installation

$ llvd --help
$ llvd -c "course-slug" -r 720

Running from docker container

$ docker run ghcr.io/andrew-su/llvd:master -c "course-slug" -r 720

Windows Users

When you get 'llvd' is not recognized as an internal or external command after successfully installing llvd, run python3 -m llvd <flags>

How to find the course slug ?

• Click on the course
• Copy the slug next to learning in the URL https://www.linkedin.com/learning/l-essentiel-d-asp-dot-net-core-pour-dot-net-5, in this example the course slug is l-essentiel-d-asp-dot-net-core-pour-dot-net-5

Cookie-based authentication

• 1. Click on the options in the google chrome (top right with 3 vertical dots).
• 2. After this, click on more tools followed by Developer Tools (you can also reach here by using the keyboard combination — ctrl+shift+I).
• 3. Now once you’ve gained access to the developer tools, navigate to the Application tab, and copy the value of two cookies from there named li_at and JSESSIONID respectively.
• 3. create a cookies.txt file to a place you want to download your courses then paste in the values of li_at and JSESSIONID as shown below.

Example (cookies.txt)

li_at=xxxxx
JSESSIONID="ajax:xxxxxx"

    $ llvd --help
    $ llvd -c "course-slug" -r 720 --cookies

Download the course with subtitles

Use the --caption flag to download videos with subtitles

    $ llvd -c "course-slug" -r 720 --caption

or

    $ llvd -c "course-slug" -r 720 -ca

Author

Igwaneza Bruce