Coursera

Query your Coursera courses in the console with nodejs.

Installation and configuration

• Install nodejs
• Download this package
• Login on Coursera and copy the cookies to the config.js file

Usage

Fetch resources

node coursera.js course-slug fetch [type=video/subtitles/all] [start=1]

Options

type [video]

Type of resource to download.

• video
• subtitles
• all

start [1]

Index of the item to start from.

Example

# download all videos from course neural-networks
node coursera.js neural-networks fetch

Config options

timeBetween [30 secs]

Time to wait between downloads to prevent a server timeout

userAgent [Mozilla/5.0]

User agent header

timeout [2 mins]

HTTP Request default timeout

dataPath [./downloads]

Path where the videos will be downloaded to

cookies [none]

Session cookies