Download videos from PluralSight

Source: https://www.quora.com/Tutorials-How-can-I-download-PluralSight-training-videos

Ahmad Ismail, Software Artisan & Bookworm Updated June 9, 2020 · Author has 85 answers and 318.6K answer views

Application : youtube-dl Documentation: rg3/youtube-dl Download Multiple Courses At Once without typing much. Download youtube-dl.exe

1. Add location of youtube-dl.exe to path variable

2. Create a youtube-dl.conf file and put it -

• On Windows C:\Users\<user name>\youtube-dl.conf

• On Linux /etc/youtube-dl.conf

put the following lines in youtube-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]'

Put batch-file.txt where 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 the batch-file.txt on D:\Downloads\batch-file.txt Open command prompt and go to D:\Downloads and run

D:\Downloads> youtube-dl

Now all your courses will be downloaded on D:\Downloads From now on just update the URLs of the courses you want to download in batch-file.txt file, Open command prompt and go to D:\Downloads and 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 run youtube-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 to What 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 resulting youtube-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.