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A script for downloading course material (video's, pdfs, quizzes, etc) from coursera.org
http://dirkgorissen.com/2012/09/07/coursera-dl-a-coursera-download-script/
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File name too long Error #122

Closed eyadsibai closed 10 years ago

eyadsibai commented 10 years ago

I am getting this error while trying to download one course

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/coursera-dl", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('coursera-dl==1.5.1', 'console_scripts', 'coursera-dl')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/courseradownloader/courseradownloader.py", line 578, in main
    d.download_course(cn,dest_dir=args.dest_dir,reverse_sections=args.reverse,gzip_courses = args.gzip_courses)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/courseradownloader/courseradownloader.py", line 421, in download_course
    os.makedirs(clsdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)

OSError: [Errno 36] File name too long: '/home/user/courses/artificialvision-001/01 - Week 1 - Introduction to artificial vision with discrete graphical models/07 - 1.7 Examples of Discrete High-level vision (multi-object tracking with occlusion reasoning, 3D pose estimation from 2D images, image parsing using shape grammars towards large scale modeling and reconstruction) (13-45)'
dgorissen commented 10 years ago

try with the latest version from github and also see the -mppl argument

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On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Eyad Sibai notifications@github.comwrote:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/coursera-dl", line 9, in load_entry_point('coursera-dl==1.5.1', 'console_scripts', 'coursera-dl')() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/courseradownloader/courseradownloader.py", line 578, in main d.download_course(cn,dest_dir=args.dest_dir,reverse_sections=args.reverse,gzip_courses = args.gzip_courses) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/courseradownloader/courseradownloader.py", line 421, in download_course os.makedirs(clsdir) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode)

OSError: [Errno 36] File name too long: '/home/user/courses/artificialvision-001/01 - Week 1 - Introduction to artificial vision with discrete graphical models/07 - 1.7 Examples of Discrete High-level vision (multi-object tracking with occlusion reasoning, 3D pose estimation from 2D images, image parsing using shape grammars towards large scale modeling and reconstruction) (13-45)'

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eyadsibai commented 10 years ago

Thanks ... it works now!