udemy-dl

Download courses from Udemy for personal offline use

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Download courses from Udemy for personal offline use

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udemy-dl is a cross-platform python based utility to download courses from udemy for personal offline use.

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This project isn't illegal since it allows you to download only those courses for which you've paid for. You won't be able to download the courses that you haven't bought. Also the content downloaded should be used for personal consumption only. It is illegal only if you reproduce, redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, create derivative works of, sublicense, or otherwise transfer the content you've downloaded. This product is, probably, made for third-world countries where internet speeds are not good enough to stream online videos at high quality. So users can download the course content and view it offline but should not redistribute it. Udemy does allow downloading course videos on their official Android app (should be the same on iOS as well). But downloading content on web is not officially supported, which is where this open-source project comes.

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8yr ago

Brutal Teardowns

Also, thanks to the crafty cheapskates on Ozbargain, here's a list of225x Free $0 Courses @ Udemy

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8yr ago

Nice concept! Ideal for developers... For the none techie check this to https://github.com/FaisalUmair/u...

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8yr ago

@otienojulie1 wow, awesome!!!

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8yr ago

Isn't this illegal? This is basically stealing content...right? Or I'm I missing something

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8yr ago

@khaliphj It's probably against their terms of use if nothing else

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8yr ago

Brutal Teardowns

@khaliphj @hawkinjs Yep: "In legal, more complete terms, Udemy grants you (as a student) a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and view the courses and associated content for which you have paid all required fees, solely for your personal, non- commercial, educational purposes through the Services, in accordance with these Terms and any conditions or restrictions associated with a particular courses or feature of our Services. All other uses are expressly prohibited. You may not reproduce, redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, create derivative works of, sublicense, or otherwise transfer or use any course unless we give you explicit permission to do so in a written agreement signed by a Udemy authorized representative. This also applies to content you can access via any of our APIs." IANAL, but looks like it would be a violation of the license conditions in their terms of service.

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8yr ago

Pulley

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@khaliphj @hawkinjs @rossdcurrie It probably isn't illegal if you download content for personal consumption. It is illegal if you reproduce/redistribute it in any form. Please see my comment for more explanation.

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8yr ago

Brutal Teardowns

@khaliphj @hawkinjs @rajat_sriv 'illegal' is a grey question. What is probably more likely true is that it's against the Udemy Terms of Use, which you agree to when you sign up. Specfically, "When you enroll in a course, you get a license from us to view it via the Udemy Services and no other use. Don’t try to transfer or resell courses in any way." So, IANAL but I imagine there'd be two things wrong here: 1) You are trying to transfer the course away from udemy 2) They are only granting you license to view it through the service. It'd be the equivalent of saying because I have a Netflix account I can rip content from their service, and save it to my PC for later viewing (separate to their watch offline feature)

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8yr ago

@khaliphj Actually any user can simply download videos with chrome extensions. This is not different form any video download app. But this app makes this process easier

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8yr ago

This violates the terms of udemy and should not be promoted

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violates the license of udemy

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7yr ago

is there anyway to fix the issue i've. It downloads incomplete videos. e.g will download a lectures 10% then moves to downloading another lectures without completing the first, and in the results says, lecture downloaded!! pls help. ty

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7yr ago

That is great. Another method is to copy and paste the udemy video link to Allavsoft and click Download button. Allavsoft will download both the video and subtitles offline to your computer.

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5yr ago

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