Egghead Video Download

Quick Introduction how to Download Egghead Videos for Offline View.

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Update:

I wrote a small npm module to automate this task: get-links-cli.

Example Usage:

# Installation
npm install -g get-links-cli

# Collect Links
get-links -u https://videourl-here.tld -c ".playlist-lessons-list a" -o list.txt

# Download Videos
youtube-dl -i -o "%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" -a list.txt

Installation

Youtube Downloader

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

brew install youtube-dl

Get Links

Javascript Code

Solution 1: Collect all links and copy them direct to the clipboard.

Execute the snippet and past it into a Textfile to download later via the Youtube Downloader.

let a=[];document.querySelectorAll('.playlist-lessons-list a').forEach(l => a.push(l.href));copy(a.join('\n'));

Info: Clipboard support may not work with every Browser: http://caniuse.com/#feat=clipboard.

Solution 2: Print the collected links to the console via console.dir

document.querySelectorAll('.playlist-lessons-list a').forEach(l => console.dir(l.href))

The tip to use console.dir() came from tucq88 who run in some issues with to long URL's which Chrome shorten via "...".

Info: console.dir is not an official standard yet it may or may not work in your current Browser.

Solution 3: Collect the links and print the Array Object

let a=[];document.querySelectorAll('.playlist-lessons-list a').forEach(l => a.push(l.href));console.log(a);

Solution 4: Print collected links via console.log

document.querySelectorAll('.playlist-lessons-list a').forEach(link => console.log(link.href))

This was the original solution but can cause problems with too long URL's which the Browser shorten between with "...".

Save the collected links in a Textfile list.txt and run:

Download

youtube-dl -i -o "%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" -a list.txt

Download for Pro-User

This Tip comes from torfeld6

Download Pro content without clicking through the whole playlist:

youtube-dl -i -o "%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" -a list.txt --cookie ../cookies.txt

The cookies.txt can be downloaded via https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg

I don't have a Pro Account yet so i can't test it

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This work by Maik Ellerbrock is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.