Coursera Downloader

Download static versions of Coursera course websites for offline reference.

Install

Download and install with the following command:

gem install coursera_downloader

Use

After installing the Ruby gem, use the coursera_downloader command to download a course like so:

coursera_downloader course-identifier email password destination-directory [policy-file]

For example, to download the first offering of the Neural Networks class, run the following command:

coursera_downloader neuralnets-2012-001 foo.bar@example.com password123 neuralnets

Default Policy File

The policy file defines Ruby regular expressions used to determine how to handle new URLs found on the course page. It is in the YAML format.

The default policy file is shown below.

---
whitelist:
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/
- ^https?://[^\.]+\.s3\.amazonaws\.com
- ^https?://s3\.amazonaws\.com
- ^https?://[^\.]+\.cloudfront\.net
blacklist:
- \.(exe|dmg)(\?.*)?$
disable:
# - ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/quiz
# - ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/forum
# - ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/lecture
# - ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/wiki
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/forum/thread?.*view=.*
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/forum/tag?.*view=.*
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/forum/list?.*view=.*
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/forum/toggle
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/forum/tag_modify
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/quiz/start
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/generic/apply_late_days
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/auth/logout
- ^https?://class\.coursera\.org/[^/]+/class/preferences

License

Coursera Downloader is available under an MIT-style license.

See LICENSE.

This software should only be used in accordance to Coursera's Terms of Service. Please see: https://www.coursera.org/about/terms

Copyright (C) 2012 by Nick Ewing