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coursera-dl / edx-dl

A simple tool to download video lectures from edx.org (and other openedx sites)
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can't download from YouTube in china,but can view video on web, how to do #540

Open a20180502 opened 5 years ago

a20180502 commented 5 years ago

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EugeneLoy commented 4 years ago

Here is workaround (helped me in somewhat similar situation):

  1. Install and start Tor Browser (to use it as proxy)
  2. Run: 
    edx-dl -u <user> --youtube-dl-options "--proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:9150" <course_url>