Tuts+ Video Downloader

NOTE: To download premium videos, you're required to have a tuts+ premium account.

REQUIREMENTS

youtube-dl

python 3.x

pip install -r requirements.txt

USAGE

Step1: Edit config.py and replace your username here and your password here with your own.

Step2: Edit cookies.txt and copy and paste tuts+ site's cookie. To copy the cookie, I used cookies.txt, a chrome extension.

Step3: Excute the command below.

python dl.py [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS

--category		tuts+ category (default: code)
				it'll be shown as a subdomain of tutsplus.com
				e.g. code.tutsplus.com

--slug			tuts+ course slug (default: None)
		  		it'll be shown as its url.
				e.g. when url is something like this: https://code.tutsplus.com/courses/javascript-without-jquery,
				then slug is `javascript-without-jquery`

--directory		directory where videos will be added
				e.g. ~/Desktop/tutsplus

--page			a starting page number

EXAMPLES

Download all courses in code category

python dl.py

Download a specific course in code category

python dl.py --slug javascript-without-jquery

Download all courses in a specific category, then

python dl.py --category design

Download a specific course in a specific category, then

python dl.py --category code --slug get-started-with-nativescript-and-mobile-angular-2

Download all courses in a specific category from a specific page into a specific directory

python dl.py --category design --page 3 --directory ~/Desktop/tutsplus

OUTPUT

Downloaded videos will be stored in ./videos/CATEGORY_NAME/COURSE_NAME/INDEX - LESSON_NAME.[ext]

e.g. ./videos/code/javascript-without-jquery/00001 - Introduction.mp4

Handling Errors

• directory name is not valid error
  • This error occurs when, say, course title is ASP.NET 102: MVC, when you download it, it will throw the above mentioned error.
  • To resolve this, just go to your virtualenv's os.py file (which is located at yourvirtualenv/lib/os.py) and add below line just above line 205 :
    • name = name.replace(":", "-")