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Download videos from egghead

Go to the egghead website, i.e. Building a React.js App

run

$.each($('h4 a'), function(index, video){
  console.log(video.href);
});

You will get the following list

https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-notetaker-introduction
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-up-and-running-with-react-and-webpack
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-basic-routing-with-react-router
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-state-props-and-thinking-in-react
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-component-validation-with-proptypes
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-using-reactfire-to-add-data-persistence
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-managing-state-in-child-components
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-transitions-with-react-router
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-making-server-requests-in-react-with-axios
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-rendering-a-ui-of-dynamic-data
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-componentwillreceiveprops-and-react-router
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-es6-refactor-non-components
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-es6-refactor-createclass-to-javascript-classes-and-proptypes
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-es6-refactor-proptypes-in-es6
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-es6-refactor-routing-without-mixins
https://egghead.io/lessons/react-building-a-react-js-app-es6-refactor-firebase-and-react-binding-with-re-base

Steps:

  1. Save as list.txt

  2. brew install youtube-dl

  3. youtube-dl -a list.txt

Run this rename script to get rid of the Mojibake

for i in *mp4; do
   mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed "s/#.*//"`"'.mp4';
done
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cuylerstuwe commented Jul 2, 2018 •
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I wrote a short userscript a couple months ago which allows Pro users to download videos or courses from the browser by appending #dl to the end of the URL.

It uses the API routes that @amrdraz found.

To install it, you need to have a userscript management extension added to your browser (I recommend Tampermonkey), then you click the Raw button in the Gist. The extension will recognize the URL pattern and prompt you to install:

https://gist.github.com/salembeats/4044adc4eeb708b25c705444e45dc55b

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goldnetonline commented Aug 4, 2018

I use this to get the video links, August 2018

console.clear()
var links = ""
$("a[data-click-handler=true]").each(function(ind , elem) {
    if(elem.href.match(/^https:\/\/egghead.io\/lessons/) ) 
		links += elem.href + "\n"; 
})
console.clear()
links

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cumibulat commented Sep 19, 2018

@goldnetonline how to use your script ?

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Akshay090 commented Oct 8, 2018 •
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Just go to the Course page and paste the link in console
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Gyvastis commented Oct 8, 2018

Should this suppose to work for premium content as well?

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a-eid commented Oct 26, 2018

this is a programatic way of doing what is described above, it's very basic
I might add to it later

https://github.com/a-eid/egghead-basic-downloader

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peebeebee commented Mar 27, 2019

copy([...new Set(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[href^="/lessons"]')).map(a => a.href))].join('\n'))

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ijasxyz commented Apr 1, 2019 •
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copy([...new Set(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[href^="/lessons"]')).map(a => a.href))].join('\n'))

Add a '/' after lessons to ignore /lessons link,

copy([...new Set(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[href^="/lessons/"]')).map(a => a.href))].join('\n'))

@saeedafroozi
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saeedafroozi commented Aug 8, 2019

I have read all the comments but still I could not download anythings.I will appreciate if some helps me to download some videos

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ashleyconnor commented Mar 10, 2020

Protected content can be downloaded via the --add-header= flag. Courses already have a download button but Collections do not.

youtube-dl -a playlist.txt --add-header=Cookie:"ahoy_visitor=...."

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rofrol commented Feb 4, 2021

https://github.com/rofrol/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/youtube-dl-egghead.sh

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bchenSyd commented Feb 17, 2021

I have read all the comments but still I could not download anythings.I will appreciate if some helps me to download some videos

I did got those links by following instructions above, but youtube-dl gave me "URL not supported error"

so far I'm only able to download these links, which is pretty useless

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