How to download Udemy Videos?

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Once you buy a course there is usually option to download individual lecture. However there are many courses on Udemy which do not have download option for the lecture. Is there a way to download them.

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score 30 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 06 '21 at 15:46

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The udemy-dl method doesn't always work; but the youtube-dl method works every time! And I'm personally using it for downloading Udemy courses all at once (full course) or also individual videos. You can do so easily with the help of the youtube-dl Python script.

You have to have Python and PIP installed.
Open command prompt or terminal
Type in there: pip install youtube-dl
Then after downloading youtube-dl , open your Udemy account where you have bought the course.
Open the course that you want to download.
Click on the course content option
Copy the link in url bar copy the link in url bar
Finally, execute the following command in your terminal:

C:\Users\ARSHDEEP SINGH>** youtube-dl -u user@gmail.com -p password COURSE_LINK**

Type your username or e-mail and password

If the username and password are correct, the following will appear in your terminal:

[udemy:course] Downloading login popup
[udemy:course] Logging in as 2arshahuja@gmail.com
[udemy:course] python-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-bootcamp: Downloading webpage
[udemy:course] 903744: Downloading course curriculum
[download] Downloading playlist: Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp
[udemy:course] playlist Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp: Collected 133 video ids (downloading 133 of them)
[download] Downloading video 1 of 133
[udemy] Downloading login popup
[udemy] 5440650: Downloading webpage
[udemy] 5440650: Downloading lecture JSON
[download] Resuming download at byte 114615
[download] Destination: Introduction to the Course-6808420.mp4
[download]   0.7% of 43.01MiB at 66.01KiB/s ETA 11:02

here explained with screenshots!! also explained for mac users

edited Feb 06 '21 at 15:46

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answered Jul 09 '17 at 11:13

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Can you download also the files attached and subs with this method? – mindOf_L Dec 20 '17 at 07:11
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You may want to add **-o '%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s'** after the password and the link to the course. `$ youtube-dl -u user -p password -o '%(playlist)s/%(chapter_number)s - %(chapter)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s' course_link` This will download the Udemy courses keeping each chapter in separate directory. – Enock Kwesi Addey Aug 20 '18 at 18:20
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not working. it says unauthorozed even though credentials are correct. – Parag Jan 28 '19 at 05:33
Thank you, this works excellently. – Steve G. Jones May 02 '19 at 17:12
can confirm this still works in 2019, thankyou – carpii May 24 '19 at 11:58
doesn't work for me 2020 – princebillyGK Jan 08 '20 at 17:37
not working anymore .. there is an official issue/bug filed since Oct 2019 :( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/22705 – Mr.P Apr 03 '20 at 12:12
As of 2023: `ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden`. Will check for resolution. – Rajesh Swarnkar Mar 23 '23 at 14:22

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 02 '18 at 01:29

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To download udemy videos download udemy-dl which is a python based application. It helps login and then download all your paid udemy videos which do not even have download option.

Following are steps for Mac:

1. Install pip

sudo easy_install pip

2. Install udemy-dl

sudo pip install udemy-dl

Use the following commands to download the course:

udemy-dl course-url

This is prompt username and password. You can supply it in command itself

udemy-dl -u username -p password course-url

Many times connection break causes course are really or internet issues. You can specify start and end of lecture number to download specific lecture.

udemy-dl -u username -p password --lecture-start 1 --lecture-end 99 course-url

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answered Feb 03 '17 at 21:11

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This does not work for me. it only creates the folder structure and downloads only other content like(.html) but not download videos. Here is a cmd which i using `udemy-dl.exe -u mymail@gmail.com -p mypassword https://www.udemy.com/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate` – Dhirendra Sharma May 31 '18 at 09:55
I'm done with all these codes but it is showing me the error "[CRITICAL-407] Cannot download lecture "Program To Generate Fake Employee Data For Database TestingPart-1": "u'view_html'"https://stackoverflow.com/users/936617/pikachu-go " – surender pal Jul 02 '19 at 06:53
@surenderpal you can download the all udemy course with this library no need to install any language just download and run https://github.com/maabiddevra/udemy-dl/ – Aabid Jul 30 '20 at 07:10
@Aabid No, it's not working like that. you can't download the videos like this. – surender pal Jul 30 '20 at 08:29
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@surenderpal the package I mention will definitely, let me know if you are facing any error – Aabid Jul 30 '20 at 10:04

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