Front-end Masters Video Downloader

WARNING

You will likely lose access to their accounts if they use the program. Use of the program againsts Front-end Master APIs is against the Terms of Service and subscribers are permanently losing their accounts when they point the program at the web player APIs.

This command-line tool requires a Front-end Masters subscription. Go to Enroll Page to subscribe (39USD/month).

Front-end Masters is expert front-end training fro you to master building quality web interfaces. All video contents' Copyright belongs to MJG International.

Please open an new issue if you have problem to use this tool.

Usage

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Google Chrome
• ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome

The latest version of Chrome webdriver can be found at link below and the Setup instruction can also be found at the same page,

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

To install Python dependencies,

pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: If you dont have pip install it using this guide https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

Getting started

python frontendmasters-dl.py --help

Usage: frontendmasters-dl.py [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --course TEXT      Course ID (e.g. `firebase-react`)
  --id TEXT          Frontend Master Username
  --password TEXT    Frontend Master Password
  --mute-audio       Mute Frontend Master browser tab
  --high-resolution  Download high resolution videos
  --video-per-video  Download one video at a time
  --help             Show this message and exit.

To download one particular course,

python frontendmasters-dl.py --id YOUR-USERNAME --password YOUR-PASSWORD --course COURSE-ID --mute-audio --high-resolution

Alternatively you can use interactive prompt by running the script directly,

python frontendmasters-dl.py

The default download path is ./Download inside the repository directory.

Change Log

[01/04/2017] - Convert the existing script into command-line tool

TODOs

As always, PR of any kind is welcomed! 🚀

1. [x] Support Window OS
2. [ ] Support better exception handling
3. [ ] Add more tests
4. [ ] Decouple page element and crawler logic
5. [ ] Support download all available courses
6. [ ] Switch to setuptools
7. [x] Switch to headless browser (e.g. PhantomJS, Chrome)
8. [ ] Support subtitle download

LICENSE

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The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Li Xinyang

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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