cloudacademy-dl

Downloader for CloudAcademy courses

I wrote this within an hour or so, therefore bugs are to be expected.

Installation

Install on Ubuntu (Example, may vary from OS to OS):

$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Sign up for either a demo account or a 7-day trial. Just visiting the website alone doesn't work. Log in and save the cookie from Chrome to a file called cookie.txt. Open the Inspect tools and click on the "Network" tab. Refresh the page. The first item in the list will be something like https://cloudacademy.com/. Click on it and copy the cookie parameter of the request. The cookie looks a little like this:

clouda-session=0f0f0f0f0f0f0-0f0f-0f0f-0f0f0f0f0f0f; csrftoken=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX; sessionid=xzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxz; ca_jwt=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Paste the entire thing into cookie.txt.

The script can be run either with or without the --aria2c flag. For that to work aria2c needs to be installed and added to the respective PATH variable of your system. Then just run it like this:

$ python3 cloud.py

or

$ python3 cloud.py --aria2c

Downloadable items

This script can download courses, learning paths or entire course libraries. Example links:

https://cloudacademy.com/course/amazon-aurora-high-availability/
https://cloudacademy.com/learning-paths/working-with-aws-databases-274/
https://cloudacademy.com/library/amazon-web-services/courses/

Example

$ python3 cloud.py
Using aria2c for the downloads!
Loading cookie from file cookie.txt
Cookie read!
Please enter a URL of the course you want to download: https://cloudacademy.com/course/designing-and-implementing-an-agile-work-management-approach-1017/
Downloading webpage...
Getting URLs of courses...
        https://cloudacademy.com/course/designing-and-implementing-an-agile-work-management-approach-1017/course-introduction/
        https://cloudacademy.com/course/designing-and-implementing-an-agile-work-management-approach-1017/project-metrics-and-kpis/
        https://cloudacademy.com/course/designing-and-implementing-an-agile-work-management-approach-1017/mentoring-team-members-on-agile-practices/
        https://cloudacademy.com/course/designing-and-implementing-an-agile-work-management-approach-1017/in-team-and-cross-team-collaboration/
        https://cloudacademy.com/course/designing-and-implementing-an-agile-work-management-approach-1017/tools-and-processes-for-agile-practices/
        https://cloudacademy.com/course/designing-and-implementing-an-agile-work-management-approach-1017/creating-organizational-structures-for-agile-practices/
        https://cloudacademy.com/course/designing-and-implementing-an-agile-work-management-approach-1017/course-conclusion/
Getting course title...
        Designing and Implementing an Agile Work Management Approach Course | Cloud Academy
Downloading videos...
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