A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from acloud.guru for personal offline use.
- Resume capability for a course video.
- List down course contents and video resolution, suggest the best resolution (option:
-i / --info
). - Download lecture(s) requested resolution (option:
-q / --quality
). - Download course to user requested path (option:
-o / --output
). - Authentication using cookies (option:
-c / --cookies
).
- Login to your acloud.guru account via browser.
- Once you are logged in right click on page the search for option called Inspect Element and click on that.
- Under that look for Network Tab and click on that. Under that Network Tab click on Requests type XHR .
- Now click on Browse Courses in the acloud.guru navbar and refresh the page you will see some requests under Network Tab.
- Right click on any of the Requests which links to acloud.guru. Simply copy Request Headers and save to text file.
- Done run the acloud-dl against that text file it will start downloading the course.
- Python (2 or 3)
- Python
pip
- Python module
requests
- Python module
colorama
- Python module
unidecode
- Python module
six
- Python module
requests[security]
orpyOpenSSL
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Windows 7/8/8.1/10
- Kali linux (2017.2)
- Ubuntu-LTS (64-bit) (tested with super user)
- Mac OSX 10.9.5 (tested with super user)
You can download the latest version of acloud-dl by cloning the GitHub repository.
git clone https://github.com/r0oth3x49/acloud-dl.git
Steps before running acloud-dl.py which will list down courses you started
- Login to your acloud.guru account via browser.
- Click on Browse Courses.
- Move mouse to the course you want to download.
- On mouseover you will see a button "GET" click on that.
- It Will redirect to the course there is another button "START THIS COURSE" click on that.
- Done, Now you can use the below usage.
Download a course
python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt
Download course with specific resolution
python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt -q 720
Download course to a specific location
python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt -o "/path/to/directory/"
Download course with specific resolution to a specific location
python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt -q 720 -o "/path/to/directory/"
List down course information
python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt --info
Author: Nasir khan (r0ot h3x49)
usage: acloud-dl.py [-h] [-v] [-c] [-o] [-q] [-i]
A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from acloud.guru for
personal offline use.
General:
-h, --help Shows the help.
-v, --version Shows the version.
Authentication:
-c , --cookies Cookies to authenticate with.
Advance:
-o , --output Download to specific directory.
-q , --quality Download specific video quality.
-i, --info List all lectures with available resolution.
Example:
python acloud-dl.py -c cookies.txt