How to keep Coursera materials that should fade June 30
Forming / / December 19, 2019
Coursera materials in the coming days will be transferred to another platform: more usable, beautiful and thoughtful. But the new life will not get anything. About a third of all courses will disappear on 30 June. Quickly save all the necessary help to our management.
Presently it is knownThat a server will be deleted about 500 courses with materials and progress. A full list of what will disappear, can be found here.
Select All right? Then it's time to determine how to swing it.
download methods
Download there are two methods:
- Google Chrome plugin. However, it is only suitable for those courses for which registration is open. For his work will need to go to a page with the current course materials having the following URL: https://class.coursera.org/pgm-003/lecture~~HEAD=dobj.
- The script in Python. With it, you can download any course, and it only required class name (in the link above is a PGM-003).
Everything you need for the first and for the second method, as well as links to the home page of each course can be found to be deleted here.
How to download materials from the plugin for Google Chrome
First set Coursera Materials Downloader plug.
Next to the address bar should appear with Coursera logo icon. Go to the page with the required course materials. Clicking on the icon opens a new window Coursera Materials Downloader with a list of all available files. You can select all, along with the video and subtitles, or just individual items.
Etpu Start push, and the materials are downloaded to the folder set for Chrome downloads by default. flag Ask User Save As to put it is not necessary: with it the expansion will be asked to confirm each file download.
For some courses, the plugin may not work. In this case you should try Coursera Downloader. But it only downloads the video: overboard and presentations, and PDF-files.
How to download materials from a script in Python
This option is more complicated, but allows you to download all the old courses with Coursera, not just those for which registration is open. In addition, the script Coursera Downloader It allows you to download several courses, sorting them by folders and subfolders corresponding to the names of school weeks.
To install the required study the small leadership. In short, you need to install Python 3 and above, go to the Coursera (if the account is no need to create an account) and run code from GitHub.
You must then select the download rate: need the name of the form 003-PGM or similar. Then run the command line:
coursera-dl -u-p --resume 003-pmg
All that is needed for mass downloading - is to add a few names of the courses at the end of the command.
Optional: script to download and test questions
If you allow the skills, you can use another interesting script in Python. Guide on how to use and a detailed discussion can be found here. With this option, you can download not only traditionally available for storage on the hard disk materials (videos, lectures, subtitles), but also tests, questions.
It is unknown what will cause the transfer to the new platform Coursera. Probably, this will be followed the next tightening of the rules of life. Perhaps, on the contrary, the courses become more accessible, more interesting and more useful. But among the materials that will sink into oblivion, many challenges. See a complete list, and you definitely want to save anything in reserve.