Comment by znpy

In case you want to download as may courses as possible before they fade away, here are some notes.

Please forgive me some mistakes, I wrote this a bit in a hurry.

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1) Spawn a virtual server on DigitalOcean.

I am using the 40$/month in order to have 40GB of space, but my plan is to shut it down in a day or two.

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2) Install screen, python-virtualenv, python3, python3-pip

3) edit ~/.bash_aliases:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    
    alias download="./coursera-dl -u <<username>> -p <<password>>"
    alias download_preview="./coursera-dl -b -u <<username>> -p <<password>>"

4) Install coursera-dl: see https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl#alternative-insta...

name the virtualenv "coursera", and place it in the root home directory

5) patch to use python3:

* pip3 install -r requirements.txt * patch coursera/coursera.dl:

    #!/usr/bin/env python
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Becomes:

    #!/usr/bin/env python3
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

6) Edit ~/.bashrc

Add this lines at the end of the file:

    cd coursera
    source bin/activate
    cd coursera

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The setup process is done. Here is how to use it:

1) Start a screen session: `screen -S coursera`

download_preview compilers-004

you can download more courses in parallel by creating another window (C-a c) and typing donwload_preview $coursename.